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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
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I've often wondered how they felt the bombers that loosed on innocents the bloody shrieks of Shock and Awe. Thousands of feet closer to heaven and the ear of god than the rest in this stone deaf world couldn’t they hear the prayers of families too poor to flee incoming flames of destruction? Were the clouds so thick they couldn’t see widows in threadbare black shielding fatherless children with all they had left bones and flesh and grief? Perhaps at that altitude where eagles are more talons than winged grace in that vast dark emptiness of distance and eternity the air is too thin for a human heart. |
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
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I think unfortunately, it's a job first. I think they have to shut their hearts off, in order to provide for their familes. Either way? It's never good, and it's never right...war I mean.  |
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moonbeam
since 2005-12-24
Posts 2356 |
"Perhaps at that altitude where eagles are more talons than winged grace" Beautiful and ever so clever. |
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JenniferMaxwell
since 2006-09-14
Posts 2423 |
Thanks guys for your kind comments. One thing I noticed on rereading this quickie first draft is that I can't hear any music at all in it. Usually, though I'm probably the only one who can, I can hear sort of a theme song playing in my head as I read the words. Maybe it's the theme, maybe it's too telly, preachy or a forced write? Anyway, something different about it. No matter. Thanks again. [This message has been edited by JenniferMaxwell (12-18-2008 07:30 PM).] |
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