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I'm over my three post and a repost so 40 words I have to comment on

DavePage
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since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

0 posted 2005-04-15 03:41 PM

The Gut One

My face is in the earth
My feet are digging to
The sky is flashing light
My stomache flashes too
Nobody else is left
I should have gone with them
But when they went to advance
I hid behind my tomb

Now no-one has come back
But I hear the marching feet
I look at the steel at night
Can someone beat retreat

I wait for that death
Dishonourable I know
It doesn't matter how you die
It just matters how you go

I have no qualms for my coward's life
I've lived it all I could
I didn't wish to be here
I don't want to be good

I started at the bottom
With the heroes right on top
But when the killing came
They all felt they should stop

So they send us out poor souls
With all their fancy words
And told us we were heroes
And we would get what we deserved

Now we are all dead
They still breed anew
And raise their glasses up to us
And bloody heroes too.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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1 posted 2005-04-15 04:08 PM

a haunting write Dave

DavePage
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since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

2 posted 2005-04-15 05:28 PM

This is also for all the coloured soldiers who died because they were used but so was everyone and now we are more civilised and if a black man or a white man needed to be sent to die - who would you choose

Dave

froggy
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since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
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3 posted 2005-04-17 11:46 AM

Hey Dave,
This is indeed an interesting write.
It speaks for many.

:-)

ps. like the new pic :-)

Today the pond tomorrow the world

MGROVES

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since 2004-02-01

Posts 3802
california

4 posted 2005-04-18 03:01 AM

good one dave
   reminds me of vietnam   to young
to drink  yet old enough to kill
     ones that wouldnt let them control
       spoke the good word
           drugs and disease
        a war to end their peace and love
             oh yea  i forgot to tell
        you   nice pic too!

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

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