Articles Index Poems and Prayers Soldier for a Wrongful Cause
No soldier is as weary
as the one for a wrongful cause.
Pressed into service
for the enemy
from an early age.
An unwilling collaborator
not resisting enough
to merit rejection.
Worn out from years of
fighting against a friend
and against self.
Without is rebellion;
within is civil war.
It is a fight to the death,
hoping to lose.
William E. Rushman, January 1998
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Jesus asked his disciples, "Have you understood all these things?" It is like a scene in "The Magnificent Seven" where Yul Brynner says to his friend, anxious for treasure, "Don't understand me so fast." The quicker we say we understand, the less likely it is that we do. -- William E. Rushman |
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