Burden of a generation (for Hardrock)

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Dark Poetry #2

Burden of a generation (for Hardrock)

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

0 posted 2000-06-28 11:44 PM

A simplistic telling of a very deep issue...

Some of them went,
my friends and family.
Some of them wanted
to defend freedom.
Some of them were just too scared
to say no.
Some of them went
to Vietnam.

Some of them went,
my friends, my family.
Some of them wanted
to prote the world.
Some of them were just too scared
to say yes.
Some of them went
to Canada.

Some of them returned,
my friends, my family.
Some of them came home
with a burdened heart
and a faraway look in their eyes.
Some of them could never
erase the screams.
Some of them returned
to life.

Some of them returned,
my friends, my family.
And some of them
never did...

AnGeLiX17
Junior Member

since 2000-06-05

Posts 46
Salisbury, NC

1 posted 2000-06-29 01:11 AM

Cata this poem was awesome I totally loved it!! Keep writin babe!!!

~^*Happiness is not a fish that you can catch*^~

Hardrock
Senior Member

since 2000-02-14

Posts 948
New Hampshire, USA

2 posted 2000-06-29 08:21 AM

Thanks Cat....every generation has its burden to bear. Every generation knows "someone who was there". The burden today, the one to beat, is not overseas, it's out in the street. Our culture has gone haywire, it threatens us all. But our kid's names won't appear on a black granite wall.

Sorry....I just think about all the kids today and the problems they face in this terrorist-threatened, drug infested, lying politician society. It makes me long for the days when I knew who my real enemy was. Great piece...collectable for me. Hardrock

Deborah1
Senior Member

since 2000-06-22

Posts 653
New Hampshire

3 posted 2000-06-29 08:25 AM

How true Catalilna, and Ive always hated the thought of what our men went through and how society overlooked what the war meant to them and the scars it left.....

Jeremiah Johnson
Senior Member

since 2000-06-08

Posts 1223
Brooksville, Fl, U.S

4 posted 2000-06-29 11:26 PM

yes a very great piece loved it so. i live in these streets and know what your talking about Hardrock. theres no more freedom no more peace for me i'm so very traped.

I'm a dying romantic and when i can no longer write i can no longer live -Jeremiah Johnson-

LuckyinLove
Member

since 2000-06-25

Posts 57
Australia

5 posted 2000-06-29 11:29 PM

I wouldn't know how that feels but you showed me how in your poem, sad.

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