`Healing`

Freedoms Incalculable cost
Is a price worth paying
I feel so very alone
Amongst my comrades in arms
To pick at a scab
Make it bleed then scab again
One scab should suffice
I will never pick again.

 

 

© Tony McNally

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

I wrote this poem in the Falklands in 2007 tewnty five years since I fought there as a young soldier.

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