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Open Poetry #36

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Bodger
Senior Member

since 2005-06-12

Posts 1260
Tolerance for a short time

0 posted 2005-09-07 03:03 PM

These words are based on my own experience and that of people I believe

Bodger

Long time ago when we wore nothing but instructions
After the event
Learning and taught by those who had been there before
And we didn't understand

Take names off your shirts

And

When someone puts a banner up
In five languages

Instructions

Signed by a 'Magistrate'

That

If you cross this line
"We will shoot"
And people have to run a gauntlet
To 'lay the tape down'
they should not cross

And PO says "it doesn't matter who you kill and but don't cheer "

When I think of one place
I think of a guy at a Discworld

Who spoke of something

Of Nurses in a hangar
on a hill

and not our people for this

Guilty we are of what we do

And I didn't

But who trained them

And the people who trained
in South America
Trained in Afghan
Trained in Iran

But

Who trained them

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2005-09-07 06:56 PM

Touching poem.. here's a bump.

Bodger
Senior Member

since 2005-06-12

Posts 1260
Tolerance for a short time

2 posted 2005-09-09 12:16 PM

Unfortunately

It is all true

Bodger

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2005-09-11 12:10 PM

Enjoyed...James

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2005-09-11 05:42 AM

This surely stirs some sad feelings ... to go through such experiences leaves a sign forever.
Trained to kill ... instead we should be trained to love.

Powerful, Bodger.

Love,
Margherita

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