Forty years - a lifetime - a soldier
Forty years at war
- not physical,
this a war of psychic and psyche
a struggles for societies' souls.
Forty years a hidden soldier
taking wounds,
too oft near death,
unseen fights
on unseen fields.
We did not win
- but the fight goes on,
and we blocked
the spread of hate,
naysayed some horrors;
and now I leave
around two score
- forty more
warriors to complete this quest
warriors I have trained,
and now pass my mantle to,
as I retire
to battlefield hospital.
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