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What Are You Crying For? |
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A thousand and many more
marching on as to war.
What are you crying for?
Could one of them yours?
Is it your son they are going send,
Will this be
his young life's end?
Is it your daughter who will
die?
Tell me Mother, why do you cry?
Is that a
father who's marching on;
Will his fate be the same
as her son?
Maybe it's someone's uncle or brother;
Could it be that it's a friend or lover?
Look
around, look around
Before it's too late we may find
They have gone with the drums of war
Following the
marching feet as before
Tell me America, What are
you crying for? |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
Listed March 29, 2012 |
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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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