<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414065" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Indelible Guilt.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indelible Guilt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More scenes of devastation.<br>The tides of war have left behind.<br>A naked child wanders alone.<br>She does not know the ground is mined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She cries for aid but there is none<br>There is nobody left to care.<br>The tides of war have come and gone.<br>Death and destruction everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lucky ones are those who died.<br>Though she survived: What chance has she<br>A helpless infant cast aside.<br>To starve to death most probably.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She may be killed by predators.<br>Who see her as their lawful prey.<br>Obeying Mother Nature’s law<br>Because they know no other way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kill or be killed the age old law<br>Instinctively they all obey<br>Each and every predator<br>The hunter can become the prey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Man the greatest predator<br>Brushes Natures rules aside<br>His greatest skill is making war<br>His blood lust never satisfied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What of the child? No one can say<br>It must remain a mystery<br>The memory haunts me still today<br>When I look back regretfully.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The guilt I feel is permanent<br>Does not abate with passing years.<br>Still flashbacks to that incident.<br>Reduce me to impotent tears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is the price that soldiers pay.<br>For answering their countries call.<br>A guilt that will not fade away<br>and makes no difference at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though we recall the heroes fall.<br>No one records the innocent<br>The weakest ones go the wall<br>By long established precedent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems that we will never learn<br>The lessons taught by history<br>Each generation in its turn.<br>Must learn experientially.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are no winners in a war.<br>The strong survive the weak must die.<br>Mother Natures age old law<br>When demand exceeds supply.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sunday,18 December 2011<br>http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414065" data-title="Indelible Guilt. de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Indelible Guilt. More scenes of devastation. The tides of war have left behind. A naked child wanders alone. She does not know the ground is mined. She cries for aid but there is none There is nobody left to care. The tides of war have come and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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