WAr In The Air

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THE WAR IN THE AIR

For a saving grace, we didn't see our deceased,
Who rarely bothered coming home to die
But simply stayed away
Somewhere out there, in the clean war

Seldom the ghosts come back bearing their tales
Of hitting the lithosphere, the incompressible sea,
But stayed up there in the passing winds,
Shades fading in the mind,

The dead who had no graves but only epitaphs
Where never so many spoke for never so few
At home widows wait and wait
Crying for their man

That was the good war, the war we won
As if there was no death, for goodness’ sake.
With the help of our “protests” towards war
They died….
In the air, in the empty air....