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Blood Red Moon |
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Night sky to the moon does yield
to the very same
ancient moon
that shone on the battlefield.
It saw the
weeping weary soldier
holding his brother as he kneeled.
It saw on his face the wash of tears
that has lasted in
memory for years
It shone on the winter at Valley
Forge.
It did see the battlefields with blood gorge
And it saw the dying on the icy ground
as the soldiers
fired round after round.
Did it catch the cries of the
wounded lying
and hear the crying for the loved ones
dying?
Did it hope that at last with freedom won
this
war would really be the very last one?
It, in silence,
hoping, just kept shining on.
It did see brother
against brother
in a Civil War terrible as no other.
At the Little Big Horn did hide its face
because of the
life lost in that place.
And how about World War One;
Did it not shine on till war was done?
We sent almost
every mother's son.
What a celebration when war was done;
It was glad to shine upon that one
And even during
World War Two
its shining light kept on true.
Just
another war, what could it do?
Then came Korea and
Vietnam
and it hid its face before shining on.
The
crosses grow, row upon row
Its gleam does reflect off
them so.
Now it shows its light in Afghanistan
To see
more battles in a foreign land
Why must we forever
constantly war?
Have we not learned anything before?
The moon it seems will always endure,
Watching that which
we say we abhor
but engage in, just as careless as before
The moon has been there since before time.
It shone on
the earth when it was sublime
Reflects to us its pure
white light and so
Earth sends back battles' blood red
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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June 5, 2011 |
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Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
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