Wars are not just about the times
when weak leaders hide their weakness
through the lies they tell for their country
towards the leaders of other countries,
who also can't count the lies they tell,
or recall after why they needed to tell them.
War is the time when would-be soldiers
find consensual comfort where they may,
without thinking that the lies they tell to be at ease
will be slowly unpicked by the peace,
by which time it is too late to repair
the tears in their lives, forever broken.
Only in peacetime can truth
speak with clarity to power,
in ways that might make power listen.
In the middle of so many wars
power does even observe
the power of it's destruction.
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