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Dark Days

Life and Love

The price of happiness

Life wasted



My World

Going back

Dark Places

Queen Elizabeth 11

Ben 2022

Forces of Nature

Good?

A Place (2)

A Place

Black and White

Stripped Bare

2022

Contradiction

Compassion

Our Story

Humanity must choose

The seeds I sewed

Russia/Ukraine

Life's Colours

If Only...?

Retracing my Footsteps

Thinking

My Demise

Our Leaders

Ukraine

Someone Unknown

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I am Betrayed.




I am betrayed.
I have honoured all.
My mother,
My father,
My country.
I have stood and been counted…
Only to be ridiculed…
By my peers,
Treated with contempt…
By my superiors,
Left alone to die.
I do not ask why I fall,
I heard my countries call…
So I stood…
And was counted.
As battle raged I trembled…
But fought on.
Gunfire…
Cannon fire...
Hells fire…
The devil was upon me…
In me…
But still I honoured…
My mother…
My father…
My country.
But I am betrayed…
For my country knows not who I am...
Only a name.
It knows not of what I have lost…
Or those that have lost me.
It knows not of the pain…
The anguish…
The joy of life it has taken from me…
It knows not of my true loss…
My mother…
My father…
My country.








I am Betrayed.


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