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Worlds Apart (v3)

The real world is different for those born within strife,

if they are lucky they may grow to become husband or wife,

but for many, boy soldiers is what they were forced to become,

only eleven years old, yet their burden is to be carrying a gun.

 

How many live long enough to know that there are other ways,

within another country they wouldn't have been made military slaves.

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