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Contributor: Lou J. Klaiber || Poem Categories

The Flute of Remembrance

country as flag
Time
runs away
like a thief
in the darkness.

Cities are born
and lost,
and it is always cold within war.

Lonely soldiers are hiding,
trembling,
and afraid

At the corner of yesterday
and tomorrow,
listening .... praying

... as a Spirit Warrior
plays his flute of dreams.

All... the battles and songs
of history.

... then is now,
and all prayer is silence
as he disappears.

The flute remains forever.

breath of a man
... remembrance of courage,
and freedom

resting within us

like an old soldier
... sleeping in the green fields
as soft as the pillows
that always lay softly

upon the limits
of time.

The flute plays

a child listens.

A soldier dies!

The song

... remains.
By Lou J. Klaiber
Copyright 2003
Listed November 13, 2009

For
507th Transport

Lou served in Vietnam in 3 Corps Vietnam during 1965 - 1966 as a Sergeant E-5.

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