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November 23, 2013
By JT1999 BRONZE, Rhinebeck, New York
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JT1999 BRONZE, Rhinebeck, New York
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"Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday"

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The sirens are alive, my dear
With caterwauling wails
The darkness, it encroaches us
And smothers with its veil

The parents are destroyed, my dear
They stare into the black
The horror, now it dawns on us
She isn't coming back

The doctor's eyes are closed, my dear
He saw the tattered rope
The screams, the snap, the dying shell
Of happiness and hope

The sirens are alive, my dear
They roar into the night
The parents seek to understand
Her lost internal fight

© Sarah S., Marblehead, MA

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