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Trading Bullets for Lives in Acts of Freedoms

by Noetic-fret!

I wrote this piece - inspired by Andrew Fusek Peters words.

 

 

Trading Bullets for Lives in Acts of Freedoms

 

 

Have you ever held a rifle with a full magazine?

Have you ever felt the weight of just one round

In the hand;- your hands?

Have you ever listened after a fire-fight –

Where null and avoidance is returned in hate?

A claiming of valiant crus...

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