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Give Peace a Glance

War is the greatest paradox:
You fight without knowledge -
You have to take a stand
    on something you cannot decide.
You fight for the people
    when people you kill.
You fight for peace
    through pieces of human death;
    through the noise of the cannons -
        and fight for the silence of the enemy's breath.
Peace at last.

How can you die
    when glory lives on?
    - A glorious victory until the enemies one.

Where is the meaning
    in death for the integrity of beliefs
    if you don't even know why
    those beliefs were brought into being?
Human Being.
Being Dead.
Right.

- Simon Huggins, 22nd February 2002