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Last roads

, oh know, just that, nowhere, this one brings me back. Where do these last roads begin and end, in our minds. Are we forever traveling down last roads as we imagine only for them to have no beginning or

, oh know, just that, nowhere, this one brings me back. Where do these last roads begin and end, in our minds. Are we forever traveling down last roads as we imagine only for them to have no beginning or

Out there



Halfpenny moment

28-06-1914

3 foot ruler

ABANDONED

About Tomorrow

ABSURB

Acceptance

ACCESSORY

ACROSS THE LINE

ADVERSITY OF VANITY

AIMLESS

ALTERNATIVE BELFAST

AMERICAN DIPLOMACY

AND ALL THAT THERE

AND NOW....A WORD FROM BRIAN

ANGELS

ANGELS CARING

ANGELS FALLING

ANNOYING SUCKER

ANYONE

AN INOFFENSIVE MAN

ART OF LIFE

ASKING A QUESTION

ASSUMPTION

AS WE CHOOSE

ATOMIC NUMBER (6}

ATTEN--SHUN

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Firing ceased.
fear beyond description settled upon the land.
What’s happening over there?
Perhaps they’re having tea. How can that be?
We’re at war, killing each other.
 
Don’t tell me that. Tell him.
Who?  Him carrying  that red cross flag.
Where, out there?  What are they at,?
Those stretcher bearers lifting our wounded,
They’re what,? Lifting our comrades, bringing them to us?
But we’re German and they’re English.
 
Yes, but we all are still men of honour
Numb with the fear of death we helped as, foe to foe,
We brought our wounded and dead into the trenches. 
Complete silence. No words needed.
The most eloquent gesture had already happened.
Simple compassion expressed between so called enemies at the battle of Mons.1914
 
 THIS HAPPENED IT WAS RECORDED BY SERGEANT STEFAN WESTMANN
                                29TH DIVISION, GERMAN ARMY
 
 




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