<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Mother Does Not</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mother does not raise her child for to fight and die in war<br>Or to kill another Human Being in a Country from home far<br>That her son or her daughter should at someone else shoot to kill<br>A person they have never known or who have never bore them ill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Picasso's 'Screaming Woman' is for all woman kind<br>The mother weeps for her dead child with grief 'out of her mind'<br>Mothers do not raise their children for to be remembered on War Memorial Day<br>For to fight in war for war mongering non combatants and throw their lives away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mother raises her son or daughter so her seed of life will live on<br>That her genes will still be around when she herself has gone<br>From the World of the living to be numbered amongst the dead<br>I wish for my children to outlive me that's what the mother said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mother does not raise her child for to meet with an early death<br>Not for her War Memorial Day or the words 'Lest we forget'<br>She wants her son and daughter for to grow old and gray<br>And she does not wish to hear of War and War Memorial Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=543027" data-title="A Mother Does Not de Francis Duggan" data-description="A mother does not raise her child for to fight and die in war Or to kill another Human Being in a Country from home far That her son or her daughter should at someone else shoot to kill A person they have never known or who have never bore them il..."></div> </div> </div>

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