When men go off to war
Women are left foraging
Endurance gets worn down
Tilling earth to make viable
Farms collapse in absence of
Continuous manual exertions
For growing fruits and vegetables
And tending livestock on all levels
Women gravid with babies pray
The other women can find them
Doctors are off tending soldiers
Leaving the rare herbal midwife
The cost of bloodshed goes beyond
Brave lives lost in fields of violence
Family left behind is vulnerable
Exposed to marauder slaughter
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