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Book 13 Page 27

 

War kills in many ways

 

Many of my friend’s husbands were told

their husbands had died fighting in the war.

 

My husband survived, yet the day he came home

was the day I realized I had lost the Husband I knew.

 

He was never the same man.

War kills in many ways.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 26/2/00