| AftermathStilled in the morning's sharp airMist hangs on the frozen earth
 Like smoke from a great battle
 Recently fought, guns silenced
 
 The sun rises anew
 In immense fiery splendour
 Echoes of a distant violence
 Fade to underlying peace
 
 And as the world turns to day
 Gentle warmth touches my face
 Long forgotten...a soft caress
 In this brutal season of war
 
 Tightly clutched shield
 Falls to the earth with my tears
 As the bringer of justice that burns
 Warms this beaten soldier
 with tender mercy
 
 
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