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The birth of pacifism

“Don’t fight back,”

that’s what my mother always said.

And now as an adult I call myself a “pacifist.”

And I say the same thing to the world in my more complicated and political language.

I am a political pacifist.

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au 19/Sep/2001