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Soldier's Tale II
Contributed by
TheSpiritx
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Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 01:30:23 PM in AEST
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Sometimes I just have to cry.
I spent 10 minutes before I left crying
As I sat on a bus
Waiting to leave… possibly for good.
I know not much happened to me directly.
Really, it doesn’t matter…
I saw what it was like,
With the bodies and the wounded.
Men flocking around the doors,
Worry-wrinkled faces under camo,
Some praying, one or two maybe struggling,
And losing, against tears.
Yeah, they’re tough guys
But they’re allowed to cry.
They’ve earned it with sweat
And blood. And sacrifice.
But the black bags come,
DOA, an upsetting acronym
In a job full of them.
Another body in the corner
Forces us to pause, for a moment.
We move on, of course…
“Can’t save the dead.”
Another chopper on the pad.
More soldiers, more civilians,
Just more wounded, tag and go.
Lost one on the flight,
Because of the battle last night.
Sometimes I just have to cry
Even though nothing happened to me directly.
I know what war is like
And what it’s like to die.
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TheSpiritx
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Re: Soldier's Tale II
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by emystar on
Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 03:34:35 PM AEST
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Very touching and heart wrenching but well written.
Again, I'm humbled.
huggs, prayer,
emy |
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Re: Soldier's Tale II
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by tifrob on
Tuesday, 8th May 2007 @ 06:21:47 PM AEST
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IMPRESSIVE... Your words dripped blood and pain. Yes, they have the right to cry. I'd rather have soldiers who cry, than robots that feel nothing.
Thanks for posting your poem,
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Re: Soldier's Tale II
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by Fionndruinne on
Thursday, 10th May 2007 @ 08:09:10 AM AEST
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Well done, and as others have said, humbling.
War is something so tied in with humanity over the ages, yet a thing we're totally ignorant of in this present day, in our comfortable countries. What a painful perspective to have forced on you, but what a perspective, still.
Andrew |
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