Wouldn’t call it a shambles yet - not when we’ve
more-or-less retrospectively argued its particular
case to an early death; like that wry view the war
won’t last more than a single-lifetime-experience
of any personal cognisance - hardly a comforting
concept, if you have to die for it to end, or is that
really what the trend insights; there’s not a hope
it will consciously cease while you remain alive
There’s still a belief you’ll live again in memories
of brothers-in-arms, comrades for whom it never
flies; & we’ve ample evidence of these, all stated
with a startling but unsettled clarity dismissed as
‘battle fatigue’ - a similar fallout derived debating
why we’ve need to make war to merely survive
© 2 July 2015, I. D. Carswell
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