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This War

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In this war, too,
they list the dead

in silence.
We stare blankly,
unfeeling,
trying out sympathy
and sorrow,
but the heart has been beaten

out of us—
the atrocities of humanity

shut us down
with guilt, and discouraged,
we wave it out of our lives.

We spoke out
once, and our voices
were strangled
and left quiet.  
This is the first thing I've written about the war with Iraq. That says something right there.
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Wolf-kin's avatar
Mmm.
Says something indeed.
And yet . . . what words are ever appropriate?