CULLED.
Cut locks
gently falling floorward.
Cropped hair
will soften goodbyes.
Curls chopped
scalp deftly shaven.
So ends
lads' innocent lives.
Bent minds
conceive child-soldiers.
War needs
pre-teenage pared men.
Bald heads
unfairly culled to kill.
Must youth's
blood be spilt yet again ?
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Author:
Fay Slimm. (
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A fine write Fay. Yes, on a youth theme, it's said pre-teens even, say, age 12, don't have full 'road-sense'. Here young lives wasted in learning and going to war. We're the only species that do it. Even animals only kill for food, and because they need to.
Actually Orchi some apes do homicide! True!
How can we be made in gods image if we send our young to fight the cowardly politicians battles? Maybe god is not so benevolent as we were led to believe? This is a cruel world.
Oh Fay and that's why we need more women politicians ... the "glory" of war escapes (most) of us........
My Friend you would not tell
with such high zest ................
To Children : ardent for some
desperate GLORY ; the old lie
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
PRO PATRIA MORI !
It is sweet and fitting
to die for ones Country
RUPERT OWEN killed in battle (WW1)
4 November 1918 aged 25
Yes FAY all War is futile but while
Aggressive MEN rule the WORLD
it is inevitable. I pray there will never
be a WORLD WAR (like WW1 & WW2)
ever again. It would destroy the Planet
ONCE & for ALL.
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Love ANGELA 🧡 and BRIAN 😎
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