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A Soldier's Rose |
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Rose, do you still sit on the porch swing
And still
watch the evenings on the wing?
Do you still watch the
lights come on at nine?
Do you still listen to the night
traffic whine?
In the far reaches of my mind
Back
where love's memory does chime
There is a road that
does wind,
Rose, to a memory lost in time
Of a sad
goodbye said slowly
And of promises made to you only
Do you still sit as we did there?
Is the smell of jasmine
still in the air?
It was heaven in the cool evening
time
To sit on that swing, your hand in mine
You would
be my wife you said
When I returned, we two would wed
Rose, watching the fireflies in the grass
We said how
quickly time would pass
Rose, say you have not
forgotten me
A soldier who went across the sea
To
never again return to you anymore;
Staying a prisoner of
a foreign war
Rose, say you will never forget
The
boy who fought with no regret
And asks only one thing
now, Heaven knows,
Just to be remembered by a girl named
Rose |
By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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April 23, 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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