CASUALTIES OF WAR

So many words unsaid

on this life’s battleground,

comrades left for dead

False hopes seeing red,

warned not to make a sound;

so many words unsaid

Misgivings hastily shed

where love’s tears confound;

comrades left for dead

Truth but to history fed,

as better sought than found;

so many words unsaid

Honest mistakes misled

for hurt pride to compound;

comrades left for dead

Nature by nurture misled

or give peace the upper hand;

so many words unsaid…

comrades left for dead

Copyright R. N. Taber 2007