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When the Woman You Love Goes Off to War

Brent C. Green

You will say nothing.

You will not mention your anti-war political views.

You will not show her
The ashes of burned draft cards
Hidden in your closet.

You will not explain to her
The false propaganda fiction
She has taken to heart.

You will not read again
The marriage pact
You signed with her
When you were twenty-one,
Wondering if it will ever
Now come true.

You will not tell her
How many times
This made you cry today.

You will not show her this poem.

All that you will do

Is say nothing at all.

Because this is her decision, not yours.

And you will hope if she returns alive

There is still a woman to love.

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