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Burden

Orginally posted on www.uink.ca

Home, has been always their dream
But it is hell, that welcomes his in reality
Scared from the moment he wakes
Scared to live another day
Silence behind troubled features
Not wanting to trouble, his troubled brothers
He bares his burden another day
To uphold his oath to an unwritten code
The war wages on beyond, his tour of duty
As somehow he found the r...

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