Dona Nobis Pacem

Why Wars Never End
(Or)
Recruits

It was pretty clear on day 37
that we weren’t going to last
much longer down here in the
collapsed bunker, haunted by
our memories of life above.

Most of us just want to
be found and freed, released
back into our ruined gardens,
our rubbled homes and playgrounds;
to stand in some fresh and sunlit air.

Some want something else:

A few among us want revenge;
want to hunt down and destroy
those who have done this to us;
to return their fire with an inferno;
to make the enemy pay.

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NaPoWriMo 2024
04.19.24
~ Haunt / Hunt ~
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