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Shot at dawn

drugged by morphine
the blue light comes to you
when the squad opens fire
the coward goes to hell
the officers are heroes

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TWO SIDES OF A COIN

Heroism has always intrigued me.  But I often wonder whether it is but "one side of the coin".

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Hero and coward,

Two sides of a coin;

How hard you may look,

You won't see the join.

 

A flick of the fingers -

The hero's in...

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