War

Darkness
Pain
Death everywhere
Why shadow?
Where is the light?
What brings this despair?
I hear my sisters calling
I see my brothers falling
I feel my heart breaking again
Cursed is this land
Of war
Go home to weeping families
And to mourning widows
For they will fight no more

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