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Peace at a price

I was a peaceful man before I went to the war.

But then; all this changed when I became a soldier.

But now after many years after the war, I am at peace again.

And although I am at peace again,

I will for the rest of my life remain a peaceful yet ‘disturbed’ man.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 20 February 2003