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From: Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
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Subject: Veterans Day / Memorial Day Poem #269
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Veterans Day / Memorial Day Poem #269
For Private Elizabeth Lynch-Gonzalez
Alone at the wall
Peering at the lost
American Dream.
Eyes ablaze
in shame.
Mind broken? your clocks' croaked
its spring.
Where did you hang
Your heart?
Not by the lions breath-
He'll devour your courage!
The chilled night burns
Bitter black.
Can't you read the tea leaves again?
A raisin sun
Comes at dusk!
Mighty laws shouldn't
Hypnotize you.
Those hapless jerks
Won't bleed sympathy.
We can swim with the sharks!
We must deny them their kill!
We must not feed their intolerable
Greed!
The ruptured beasts belly shall be denied
Forever.
Written from the Heart by Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich
Veteran of Gulf War Era Army E4.
More Poetry: http:/home.pacbell.net/amerhero/poems/poems.htm
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-- Otis Willie (Ret.)
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