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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

History

In the heat and the smoke the muskets fire
The shot flies true, the redcoats fall.
And in the future those who fell
Will find their names upon a wall.

Is it enough to remember?
Is eternity worth the price
Of thousands of wandering ghosts
And thousands of ruined lives?

History is written by the victors,
But only the commanders in chief.
No words are heard from the mothers
With their boys six feet beneath.
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