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Does someone win?

December 29, 2013
By JossyRose DIAMOND, Tampa, Florida
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Go ahead, judge me. Just remember to be perfect the rest of your life.

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We fight and kill
Lose our loved ones
Do we even remember why we're fighting?
Are we proving a point?
I won't give up because then you win
And you won't give up because then I win
But then, if we never stop then who wins?
When we lose so many of our own
Does anyone actually win?

© Jillian K., New City, NY

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My father used to say "War doesn't prove who's right, only who's left."
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