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On the Edge of it All<br />
Me, the last to stand on this edge.<br />
The brink of life, the threshold of death,<br />
The border of an endless, eternal, ever growing pit.<br />
Staring at the world before me. My future.<br />
Could this possibly be the destiny that was meant for me?<br />
A vast sea of corpses. Only time will tell.<br />
The moment it takes to fire a shot, bare a fall, and say farewell.<br />
Is this just? Did the enemy give anyone a fighting chance?<br />
Gypsies, injured, weak, young?<br />
Human bodies staring back at me.<br />
For some, spirits gone, others barely hold on.<br />
To their most cherished possession, life.<br />
Our own kind, flesh and blood, going against us.<br />
All because of a small difference.<br />
The faint barrier but between us.<br />
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What could we have done to receive this?<br />
Worship a scared text that we call our own?<br />
Follow traditions of many generations past?<br />
Take part in a legacy?<br />
If only I had listened to the others,<br />
The outcasts, the clues, myself.<br />
Maybe I would not be here.<br />
Me, the last to stand on this edge,<br />
On the edge of a story’s ending, my grave.<br />
Just to be murdered by a uniform.<br />
No heart, no soul, just orders.<br />
To extinguish all faults of life.<br />
This world, my friend, is not the perfect place<br />
That ruler of those soldiers dreamt it to be.<br />
Katie Harwood<br />
Kyle Fisher
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