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Tom Zart
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since 2006-05-18

Posts 682

0 posted 2006-06-20 11:42 PM

P.O.W.

When you become a P.O.W.
You find you've lost your liberty and more,
The guy with the gun tells you what to do,
As you yearn for freedoms you had before.

Your will to serve helps keep you alive,
Though sometimes you wish you were dead.
Tortures far beyond any normal mind,
And there's no safety, even your bed.

Bullets, barbwire, searchlights and sharp teeth,
Keep you in a place you don't wish to be.
The food is quite awful and sometimes it moves,
And you've no choice of what you hear or see.

The lucky are released and return home,
Though in their dreams their fate is unsure.
War may be hell, but confinement is worse,
Cause afterwards you're never as you were.

By Tom Zart
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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2006-06-21 07:38 AM

a tragic topic, so sad indeed

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

2 posted 2006-06-21 07:41 AM

bless you, and the families of those who've experienced this...sad news today, I suspect brought this to form for you...
may I hug you?

Tom Zart
Senior Member

since 2006-05-18

Posts 682

3 posted 2006-06-21 08:42 AM

Thank you for your support of my poem.

fmlbarebackrider2001
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since 2005-11-16

Posts 138
West Texas, United States

4 posted 2006-06-21 10:10 AM

I have friends who have been there and your words ring true. Sad but touching.

Know yourself before you try to know someone else.

Snowflake From Hell
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since 2003-07-10

Posts 777
My own little Icey Oblivion

5 posted 2006-06-21 06:47 PM

sad doesnt come close to describing that topic nobody should be captive and caged

Hollow heroes seperate as they run...Shadows linger in your pain dead and done

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

6 posted 2006-06-21 07:47 PM

Tom,

Even in light of the Geneva Convention, POW conditions truly must be pure living Hell.

Thank God, I can only imagine.

-Bob

Tom Zart
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since 2006-05-18

Posts 682

7 posted 2006-06-21 09:01 PM

Thank you all for your kind words of support.

Bonnie j
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since 2003-06-27

Posts 1588
Ohio

8 posted 2006-06-22 09:43 PM

I have never known a person who has been in a P O W camp. But I have heard of the injury to mind and body. Man can be so heartless and unfeeling all in the name of right and wrong. To inflict such pain on another is but an ill mind in power over another.
Such a sad poem on the atrocities of man.
Hugs
BonBon

Tom Zart
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since 2006-05-18

Posts 682

9 posted 2006-06-23 09:37 AM

Bonnie j,
Thank you,Thank you,Thank you if you like my writes
go to google look under Tom Zart you will find
hunderds of my poems.

Tom Zart The Westport Poet.

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

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10 posted 2006-06-23 09:38 AM

You put a real face on the atrocities of war. One of the Canadians that was recently released in Iraq is a friend of a friend, and I was sweating bullets the entire time he was in captivity ~ but he and all POWs sweat blood...

Love, Peace & Harmony,

Linda

Tom Zart
Senior Member

since 2006-05-18

Posts 682

11 posted 2006-06-23 09:44 AM

Earth Angel,

Thank you so much for your support of my work
look me up on google under Tom Zart and you will find hunderds of my best poems.

[This message has been edited by Tom Zart (06-23-2006 10:29 AM).]

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