Keeping Score

I had no dog in the hunt

but I kept score anyway

at least I though I was

I believed that the numbers of the fallen

ours and theirs

was the score of war

the body count kept increasing

more soldiers were sent

when that war died down

another began

once again the thoughts of

'who cares, I don't have to go'

came back

once again I began counting bodies

the cycle kept repeating itself

I began to notice

so many former soldiers

disabled

homeless

more dying of suicide

than in the wars they fought

while the military industrial community

continued to feed their coffers

by the blood of the fallen

What was the score again?

I seem to have lost count.