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The Enemies

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Last night they came across the river and Entered the city. Women were awake With lights and food. They entertained the band, Not asking what the men had come to take Or what strange tongue they spoke Or why they came so suddenly through the land. Now in the morning all the town is filled With stories of the swift and dark invasion; The women say that not one stranger told A reason for his coming. The intrusion Was not for devastation: Peace is apparent still on hearth and field. Yet all the city is a haunted place. Man meeting man speaks cautiously. Old friends Close up the candid looks upon their face. There is no warmth in hands accepting hands; Each ponders, 'Better hide myself in case Those strangers have set up their homes in minds I used to walk in. Better draw the blinds Even if the strangers haunt in my own house'.

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