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Tom Zart
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0 posted 2006-06-10 11:50 AM


WE WISH YOU WERE HOME


I remember that fair in September
As we waited for a Ferris wheel ride,
Just as you reached for my fingers,
I felt how I loved you inside.

The next thing I knew we were airborne,
Above all the eyes of the crowd,
Surrounded by rainbows of neon
As the moon popped from behind a cloud

You asked, "Daddy, do you love me?"
I answered I couldn’t live without you.
Then you reached up and tugged on my collar
As we flew in that chair painted blue.

Now you are grown and gone
And have marched away to war.
As I'm writing this letter,
I yearn for your knock at our door.

I got out some rags and the wax
And gave your old Ford a rubdown.
I went for a ride of remembrance
While its mufflers made your favorite sound

I drove by the park to ponder
Those ball games we loved to play.
I can 't help but worry and wonder
If you'll ever come home to stay

Your girlfriend still teaches school
We see her every seventh day.
There's no doubt who she thinks of
When she folds her hands to pray.

Your mother still talks to your picture
As she works at her sewing machine.
I hope my son you realize
How much to us you mean.


By Tom Zart

© Copyright 2006 Tom Zart - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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1 posted 2006-06-15 06:24 PM


Very beautiful and poignant!

May your son be safe and be back home soon!

Love,
Margherita

Lighthousebob
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2 posted 2006-06-15 06:43 PM


Tom,

It's so good to read about your fond memories and expressed compassion and concern for your Son. I'm afraid that such words of expressed love are much too often neglected today. I remember this year, after I did the eulogy for my half brother's funneral, my dad told me that he was proud of me for the first time that I can ever remember..... It truly meant the world to me. Enjoyed reading.

-Bob

Tom Zart
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3 posted 2006-06-15 07:52 PM


Thank you,Thank you = both for your time and your kind words of support for my work.
Debo
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4 posted 2006-08-20 08:40 AM


Oh the things that war brings to our table.
Yet if you ask a soldier why he goes.
That soldier will tell you I fight for peace and freedom and I fight for you and me.
Very nice write and may God see our sons and daughters home safe real soon.

Debo

aziza
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5 posted 2006-08-20 02:55 PM


I cried.
I hope he comes home to you.

Tom Zart
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6 posted 2006-08-20 03:31 PM


Thank you my fellows for your support of our troops.
Ceinwyn
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7 posted 2006-08-20 09:30 PM


My prayers go out to you, your wife and son. May God bring him home safely to you

If at first you don't succeed destroy all the evidence that you tried.

Tom Zart
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8 posted 2006-08-21 01:04 AM


Thank you for your kind reply.
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