ENIGMA

Sometimes the right thing to do

is the wrong thing to do.

Sometimes, the best option

is an awful one

and you hate the decision you have to make

and all the possibilities and permutations

are simply piss-poor.

Sometimes, there's no good way out.

'They will be missed.'

We knew they were to be killed.

We knew of the attack

the virtual slaughter awaiting them

sight unseen.

We knew exactly what was coming

but we remained silent

because we knew

'it would save lives.'

We knew the future we treasured

required these kinds of hard decisions.

We knew that to speak

would harm us more.

So these children died

'for a better tomorrow.'

There are decisions

too horrible to make.

The very choice offered

can be worse than no choice at all.

Sometimes, it is all too hard.

Sometimes 'the right thing to do'

isn't.

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