Every time you fly the fighter aircraft
With a steady heart and focussed thoughts
Equipped with years of training
Your country shivers for you
Strangers pray for you
Spare a thought for your family
Think of your expectant nation
And pause a minute
With a shred of humanity
Still in your heart
Think of your enemy
A victim of your destruction
Prepared to strike back
Both automated to perish
Following somebody’s orders
Who would sign treaties
And shake hands
After nothing is left
And everyone is gone
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