jerry hughes - LEST I FORGET

I'll never forget the vision of young men
turning old before my eyes.
Shell-shocked babbling to themselves.
The exuberance of bravado, or the guilt
of cowardice brought about by fear.
Victims of a graveyard for the dying and
the dead. Indeed: 'Lest I forget'

jerry hughes

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