Poem 27 Vererans
Channel: Bunny Warren
Date: 29/05/2023

I am particularly proud of this poem, because it moved a veteran friend of mine, who saw combat and sadly suffers from PTSD...  He gave it his blessing.

27. Veterans – 10.10.20

All my life
Veterans I’ve known
Trained to kill…
Taken to the zone

Dark is the ride
That requires them to kill
Brought out of a human
That makes some so ill

We train them for orders
Without any doubt
To act and do murder
As if it’s alright

These machines we create
Will not hesitate
To fight to the death
Without any hate

Yet after their time
Of ribbons and cheers
We forget that we made them
Our soldier with tears!

Their tears they must hide
No time to make leap
To civvy requirements
Where peace runs so deep

If out in our World
A fool makes a threat
Don’t doubt that our Veterans
Still fight, don’t retreat

If you challenge a man
Who’s life has been marked
By the honour of service
Their eyes might be dark

So don’t be surprised
If the buttons you press
Unleash the same violence
That led to their stress

The programme once written
Is hardwired in a code
To fight like good soldiers
As that’s what WE MADE!

By Andrew (Bunny) Warren

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