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Over There

February 26, 2010
By MarkusSinclair SILVER, Honolulu, Hawaii
MarkusSinclair SILVER, Honolulu, Hawaii
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Favorite Quote:
"Good poets write for their audience while great poets write for themselves"
-Markus Sinclair


Over There
there is war,
raging in long forgotten sands.

Over there
there is blood,
it drips from mortar mine and shell

Over there
there is death,
stars winking out through a cloud's viel.

While over here there is only neglict.
We stand like stone that would rather forget.
The toil that shaped us, that keeps us free
now is scorned by its child across the sea.

The author's comments:
This is a tribute to the men and women in Iraq and is a expression of my astonishment that we as civilians do not recognize that we are truly at war.

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