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Is It Over?
Contributed by
bevan
on
Sunday, 2nd June 2013 @ 10:55:41 AM in AEST
Topic:
war
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I, Gabriel, collect your glorious dead,
Blown off legs, arms and decapitated head.
Take my hand boy and standing here,
Release your weakness that you name fear.
But is pain now over that you are dead?
Does human suffering stop as you have left?
No the hurt continues,
Running through each bone, all sinews.
Bullets still practice their deadly art,
Tearing parents and children apart.
Men, now brothers drop like flies,
Yet not one stops and ever defies.
Death is ever present like centuries before,
Built up by victors, converted to lore.
So I am ever present, my job never done,
I pick out the blind stricken, the confounded, the dumb.
And as you stand here, look around with me,
Now tell me brave soldier what do you see?
There’s your brother tangled on wire,
And there your sergeant blown apart by gun fire.
A soldier falls, one shot to the head,
So tell me liberator, is it better to be dead?
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bevan
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2013-06-02 10:55:41]
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Re: Is It Over?
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by Archie on
Wednesday, 5th June 2013 @ 01:56:04 PM AEST
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| I like that your poem rhymes. I could not really pick up the rhythym but I think its good. |
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Re: Is It Over?
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by RussellReinhardt on
Thursday, 13th June 2013 @ 07:13:09 PM AEST
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Hello There
I like this poem although it's sad and destructive by nature questioning mans violent side. It reminds me of a very very old song I sang in a school concert as a young boy at school "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" this song to questions mans violent side. Good write that makes us think, sadly we won't change though.
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