Commentary and Philosophy Poetry posted October 14, 2019 Chapters:  ...39 40 -41- 43... 


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A poem about loyalty and lack of it

A chapter in the book Miscellaneous Poems - vol 3

At what cost?

by CD Richards

 
In dismay,

those ordered to retreat

obey, as they have been trained to do.


Discarded,

yesterday's friends question

what commitment and loyalty mean.


Blood-red sands

proclaim their betrayal

as those they trusted leave them to die.


 



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