Which Life Will

It is a day for remembrance
The ships are sinking deeper
Parts of other things
Relevant
Are found below
Now and then

A surprise attack isn’t good
Not for defenders
And all our planes and ships in tows
Exploded one after another

And the people
The people mattered more

And the loss of them was grand in scale
And awful

Enemies to allies
Plans
To rebuild the world

Maybe we learn from these great wars
That great is relative
(like grand)
That loss is terrible
In the unnatural aspect of the thing
In which we kill our siblings
And our parents
And our children

The nations’ lines that
Might come back
Rearranged
While those who live within
Might not be caring more
Than the chance
To live on either side

Though lines may
Determine policies
Sometimes
Ways to live
Perhaps
Challenges to
Pride

A pride I doubt those
Gone
Might feel
Anymore
Though we don’t know the afterlife that well

As for this life
Well
There is that learning
Before we add more numbers to
The world at war

C L Couch


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