War That Can Not Be Won

By: Taylor Haviland
issue 4

We are all rugged people,
and through out soft degrees.
Many a mean have shouted,
Many have fallen too their knees.
We think we’re at war with others,
But wrong because we are at war
with ourselves,
A war that has long begun
A war that can not be won.

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