Peace Pilgrim - Revisited

I think it is time to repost this work by Peace Pilgrim:

On the scarred battlefield, where they forced me to go I met a man that they said was my foe---- And I ran him through with my blade! When I pulled it out and his blood gushed forth, I was suddenly filled with racking remorse---- "I have killed a man!" I said. He was slim and youthful and frightened like me, And not a fiend as they said he would be---- "They sent me to kill you," he sighed. "By God! I wish you had done so!" I swore. "Why, I don't even know what I'm fighting for!" "Nor I," he breathed, and died.