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Ill-Will

September 8, 2023
By jcuffaro SILVER, York, Pennsylvania
jcuffaro SILVER, York, Pennsylvania
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Hesitantly, I load a bullet in the chamber

Shaking- my heart is aching

My eyes shut tight, yet tears still overflow 

All I show are secrets to this

Aching heart of the unbeknownst 

What I do not know, cannot hurt me

Still, I shed tears 

Of that enemy, I fear

Soon to come near

I quiver as I picture

Being delivered in a casket

I quicken my lingering enemy 

We both have a family, 

waiting at home in agony 

There is no death penalty,

And in the end

It is a search for

The dead’s identity


It is a free for all 

And for all of humanity-

Ill-will puts fear 

To the mind of who is

The real enemy 


The author's comments:

This piece is about the futility of war and what war drives you and me to believe will successfully do to end our suffering in a world in which war is inevitable. Political leaders around the globe, however, push out young men and women to wars- not worth fighting- faster than they can bury them in the ground. The antipathy or “ill-will” between you and me is what politicians desert us to.


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