Salute

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I lay broken and lost

A piece to a long-forgotten puzzle

I want to laugh, but I shed a tear

No longer a child, sweet and fragile

Now a man, strong and agile

Never to be broken, only to break

I want to smile, to be at peace

Yet, I toiled, a merciless hunter

A soldier, amongst men

But my time is now over, to dust I now turn

Alone once more, an old man in his chair

Gun in my lap, one choice I now have

One final salute, a soldier departs

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