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Open Poetry #15

Extended Payments

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2001-09-14 12:07 PM

I remember nightly news stories
Of battle waged and body counts
Black bags loaded on planes
To be flown home to a land
Where it seemed they were grieved
By only family and friends

I recall images shown
And a public shocked by the things
We sent young men and women to do

The cause was different
The way unclear, but in the beginning,
Idealized in people’s minds
As saving the world
From a creeping menace

Quagmires of Jungle mud
Stick in clinging heavy ways
To the mind

Today, after terror has been brought home
To stain the soil of our own land
With blood and tears
Terror and fear
We must know all things worthwhile
Have a cost

First Payment has been made
But other installments will follow

[This message has been edited by Cpat Hair (edited 09-14-2001).]

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-09-14 12:19 PM

Ah yes...we are of an age...and now history shall add to these memories...

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