“ wounded warrior ”

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could not see me

not in the right away

am i dead ???

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what has skewed my heart

what has taken me all apart

what, damn it, what

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see my legs stretched out next to who

mangled and ripped to shreds by U know who

dried and shriveled and what to do

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my breast plate all across my gate

in the trouble of what others called fate

not my own but subjected to

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war has my helmut smashed to the top of my head

war has my brain, smashed to the top of my skull

war has never been known as this – in the unmasked

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finally truth starting to flow

from this and other in murdered souls

watch now all these ghosts to where they go

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in the hands of who they used to know

begging and pleading…