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Hesitant Warrior |
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Trembling has crept in to my bones
My young ones I
need at home,
not placed in a flag draped box.
Please,
no more names on a Wall.
Who will answer Freedoms Call?
My young ones are bound to go
because others have decreed
it so.
The peace that we all seek
cannot be procured
by the meek.
Pray, do enlist this old hand,
who can do
no more but
wave the flag of our land.
This old head
does think twice
for others must make the sacrifice.
Would that I could, take up the chase
instead of sending
others in my place...
I think tis so easy to be brave,
when it is on others, war will rave. |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2003
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August 25, 2011 |
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About
Author...
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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