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I saw myself
in the empty eyes
of a dead soldier
caught in a war that shatters
dreams
like glass
into bits and pieces of pain
full
of blood.
... and emptiness remains
slowly falling through my hands
as sand
and time,
as a war that threatens to invade
eternity.
Emptiness!
The wind
blowing across my grave.
A cold wind,
and the clouds
crying.
Emptiness.
arm in arm with death
and both sleeping with the whore
of time
upon the soldiers grave.
The winter moon
is a frozen bird.
Emptiness! |
By
Lou J. Klaiber
Copyright 1990
Listed
December 18, 2009 |
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Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5.
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