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Book 27 Page 26

 

Peace agreement

 

A nod,

a hand shake,

A kiss,

a hug,

And a wiggle of a pen

and the peace treaty was signed.

 

Now that wasn’t so bad.

Yet it took over 5000 lives,

Ten years of heart ache,

and ten billion tears to achieve.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 9/25/00