1
A man who lived
A life so free
Was forced to join
Depravity
They said there was
A rightful cause
The others were
Just breaking laws
But there were two of them fighting,
Both taken up, both unwilling
Both afraid of the threat filling
Their hearts, their heads, their lives.
2
The threat, the danger
Came not just from the stranger,
But from the friend,
Who was supposed to protect
From the danger so bleak,
To calm, to speak,
To him, to help him
To be his friend,
His ally,
This person killed him but he was not
A spy.
3
There were many causes,
Many reasons,
Many excuses
For the executions
The forced fled,
The conscripted, counted their remaining days,
Before coming,
To the conclusion,
That war,
Was an illusion,
War was not worth the death of,
A soul,
A human,
Theirs or their enemy’s.
Sense was seen as betrayal,
Cunning as disloyalty,
They were running from death
To death
By Nicholas Mackay