Make me a channel of your peace
They say as they send their sons
Off to fight in unwinnable wars
To be brainwashed and prodded like cattle
Till they morph into killing machines
To come home still alive but too broken
To even know how to repair
To come home not alive, just a token
Of a government that couldn’t care less
Make me a channel of your peace they say
And all I can say is how can you dare?

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