Are you certain
You got your facts straight
It's been a long time

And the language may have changed
Are you certain
You trust your memory

From a time when we
Still believed in right and wrong


Have you recorded all the casualties
All the strategies
Of this thirty-year war


I remember
How the prisoners

Used to comfort me
Even as I locked the cells
I got to know them

Their eccentricities

Their family histories

And who it was they used to be

Back before all the casualties

All the strategies
Of this thirty-year war


All they don't know
Is that so long ago
I was a prisoner in this very cell

What they don't see
Is the part of me
That still wears the scars of criminality


They don't identify me anymore


I will not be another casualty
Of my very own
Thirty-year war