If you could hear the sound of a heart break
What would it be?
The shattering of a plate
Or the snapping of a tree?
The things that hurt most do not have sound
But like all things that go up
Must always come down
You see nothing lasts forever
Around here
That’s just the way life is
My dear
@war_torn_poetry is the pseudonym for Dan McDonagh. Dan is a current serving infantry sergeant in the Australian Army with 16 years of service, three tours of Afghanistan and one tour of East Timor. Follow him here.
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