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vampiana
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Nothing and Nowhere

0 posted 2004-09-16 12:00 PM


A solitary tear trickles, onto the man lying before me
Surrounded by death, disease and destruction
Injured soldiers, wrench my heart.
Cover up strength, but beneath fragile glass
Holding on by my fingertips
But my grip is weakening,
I’m starting to slip,
Taken by the forces of evil,
That made this war commence.
Now nothing more than a broken body,
Empty without my soul.
I wish I could kiss the wounds of the men,
Heal the pain beneath their skin
But I have been taken by the demons
Their roaring fires engulf me.
Yet still my solitary tear trickles,
And my sigh echoes into the dismal depth of nothingness.

Tomorrow, is the today we feared yesterday.

© Copyright 2004 Kirsty - All Rights Reserved
ecrivan
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1 posted 2004-09-16 12:05 PM


I can see where this scenario may be an envisionment of current happens and the solitary tear is the violence that has no end...interesting piece


DavePage
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2 posted 2004-09-16 11:38 AM


To lose and then lose again

Dave

LeeJ
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3 posted 2004-09-16 11:40 AM


this gave me chills and a subject I have pondered over again and again


Startime55
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4 posted 2004-09-16 11:41 AM


Stunningly powerful...goes into the soul and settles there...

ctowen
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5 posted 2004-09-16 10:04 PM


Even one tear can have an echo which carries through such emptiness ....

       ... many share that tear.

                 Good write.

vampiana
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6 posted 2004-09-22 11:08 PM


thanks for the replies everyone. i wrote this piece for social studies at school, we had to write about war and the effects of it.

"Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?"-Frank from Donnie Darko

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