The casualties

simplemind · 2016-05-08T09:59:53+00:00

The THE CASUALTIES John Pepper Clark The casualties are not only those who are dead; They are well out of it. The casualties are not only those who are wounded, Thought they await burial by installment The casualties are not only those who have lost Person or property, hard as it is To grape for a touch that some May not know is not there The casualties are not those led away by night; The cell is a cruel place, sometimes a heaven, No where as absolute as the grave The casualties are not those who started A fire and now cannot put to out. Thousands Are burning that had no say in the matter. The casualties are not only those who escaping The shattered shell become prisoners in A fortress of falling walls. The casualties are many, and a good number well Outside the scene of ravage and wreck; They are the emissaries of rift, So smug in smoke-room they haunt abroad, They are wandering minstrels who, beating on The drum of human heart, draw the world Into a dance with rites it does not know The drum overwhelm the gunsâ€¦ Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges When not in the niche others have left, We fall. All casualties of war, Because we cannot hear other speak, Because eyes have ceased to see the face from the crowd, Because whether we know or Do not know the extent of wrong on all sides, We are characters now other than before The war began, the stay- at- home unsettled By taxes and rumor, the looter for office And wares, fearful everyday the owners may return, We are all casualties, All sagging as are The case celebrated for kwashiorkor, The unforeseen camp-follower of not just our war. are not only those who are

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Start date May 8, 2016

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