someone says
you
did this for
me,
can I say
you did not
did you
believed in the cause
need something better than a job at the corner convenience store,
were following a family tradition, or
making a new
mark
did the training turned you into a man
the reason
so many have used to
send in their sons
women soldiers
volunteering for their own reasons.
your truth
anonymous
untold
we only have the story of others
the grieving and the powers
who say women went docilely, enraptured, with
great honor to the funeral pyre
i can only say you
died
and thatŐs what war does
Kills
You.