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Poem for Armistice Day

Prisoners of war once smitten
By those pleas to “Beat the Foe”,
Find the devil that is in us
All, can spoil a moral blow:

“Prisoners of Conscience” stricken
Low by needy, mortal man,
Knowing it is Nature’s instinct
To survive as best she can:

“Prisoners of Faith”, now bitten
By those “Turning other cheek”,
Caught in “No man’s land”, and
Finding it’s a message that’s skin deep:

“Prisoners of War” we all are,
If the battle that was won
Stops us from the one step forward,
Paralysed by long-lost sons

Prisoners of War
By David Firth, written after Armistice Day, November 11th, 1993

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