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Pain... Tears... and Rain |
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He had visited the Wall especially on a day of rain
Because he had heard stories of the visitor's tears
And he thought he could not stand the pain
He knew
he'd give way though it had been years
The Wall
shone in the rain with an angelic light
A visit in
the rain was better than a visit at night
The
raindrops were running down all the panels on the Wall
With the raindrops on visitors faces tears shouldn't
show at all
But the agony in the visitors' eyes
was a dead give away
He might as well have went to
the Wall on a sunny day
He saw the daughters, wives,
sisters, the sons, the mothers
He saw the eyes of the
friends, the eyes of the brothers
At the Wall a
vigil was being kept
At last he finally knew that he
was not alone
... As in the rain he wept |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
Listed December 1, 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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