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-my Friend the Enemy-

WOULD YOU HAVE SHOT ME MY FRIEND, IF NOT FOR THAT WAR WOULD WE ENEMIES THEN HAVE BEEN I BLAME YOU NOT AT ALL MY FRIEND FOR IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME THAT SHOT YOU INSTEAD WAR IS CRUEL, MY FRIEND THE BLAME IS NOT ON YOU IT'S OUR COUNTRIES CAUSES THAT CONSCRIPTS YOU AND ME TO FIGHT SOMETIMES NO MATTER HOW UNJUST IN WARS THAT MAKE YOU AND ME, ENEMIES WHEN IN ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME WE COULD HAVE BEEN FRIENDS, MY FOE IT'S MY COUNTRY THAT SHOT ME DOWN NOT YOU, MY FRIEND, THE ENEMY THAT MY COUNTRY MADE OF YOU AND ME REMEMBER, YOU ARE BLAMELESS, MY FRIEND, THE ENEMY. 

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Book: Shattered Sighs