RAW

By Carter Cormier

fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper

when the world pretends to divide itself

never to determine who’s right – only who’s left

where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

a place in which no soldier ever really survives

yet truth is the first casualty

when only the dead see the end

inevitable

civil?

complete with industrialized slaughter,

fear,

and appalling

human

suffering

Quotes Throughout Time:

Vera Brittain (nurse) – 1933

Rudyard Kipling – 1915

Winston Churchill – 1931

William Shakespeare – 1597

Adie Murphie – 1949

Arthur Ponsonby – 1928

George Santayana – 1922

Nick Harraway – 2012