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Kate Deter
Poems
Apr 2014
Fires of War
The fires of war will burn
Deep within the heart.
Ev’ryone the ache of loss will learn.
The enemy we spurn—
Their blood spreads far apart.
The fires of war will burn.
“Bring us death, sir. Please,”
the wounded yearn.
“We have done our part.”
Ev’ryone the ache of loss will learn.
The war’s at last adjourned.
Off the fields I cart
The fires of war that burn.
Soldiers pile up in heaps. I turn—
I list the dead in charts.
Ev’ryone the ache of loss will learn.
The past will ne’er return.
The conflicts always start.
The fires of war that burn
The ache of loss will learn.
#war
#fire
#pain
#death
#battle
#heartache
#villanelle
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