any...
( paradox of deeds )...
in the conflict s of an individual...
in the fights of a family...
in the scuffles of a neighborhood...
in the battle s of a country...
and in the wars of a world!...
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loyal young lie moments from... those fighting steps to death...
under names instilled within their brains... to have them 'be their best'...
they looked ahead from days now dead... insurance sold to youth...
invincible their young eyes saw... till blood men showed them truth...
how different front lines change the mind... from boot camps stamping 'follow me'...
when seeing skies through other eyes... becomes a lie in infantry...
surviving skills put to the test... in battles on his soul...
whip the dread of 'kill the rest'... which made the soldier whole...
lessons wrought when preachers taught... those kids their golden rule...
sneak outside from where they hide... like questions meant to fool...
down-sized arrows pierce inside... and hit the bull's-eye knot...
as leaking veins collapse in pain... leaving open wounds to rot...
what's left tides over soldier's time... treading water on a wave...
in seas of big shots' apathy... for finding ways to save...
false towers built by self-made power... crumble neath their spell...
of 'right is might' by some men's light... held in that height from hell...
tales tell them... 'do it well... as those before you did'...
while memories of old sympathies... emerge from where they hid...
the enemy's sight of family ties... gets beaten up by second-thoughts...
as faces lose the human race... when saving grace is the guy who lost...
blood lines to what's left behind... back in someone's home...
let the despair of not being there... drip on dying bones...
the war within the soldier's core... strips life from broken seed...
what they go through... for who knows who... is th e paradox of deeds!...
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in the conflicts of an individual...
in the fights of a family...
in the scuffles of a neighborhood...
in the battles of a country...
and in the wars of a world ! ...
( head strong... dead wronged )...
around their breath a heart did beat...
to thumping drums from marching feet...
cloned moans of suffering echo through...
a toughened ground where violence grew...
dead roots drew hold as overkilled blood...
spilled puddles of loot for footprints of...
a scouraged duty boots leave behind...
after uneven tread wipes out in line...
the air took sick as its stomach turned...
each churning chunk of memories burned...
by that hot iron torch tied to co- branded men...
from scorching hands who commanded them...
earthy dirt spots where the children once played...
cover po tboy shots dropping bodies for graves...
as limping legs fall upon small plastic guns...
under kid toys pretending to blast all in fun...
the atmosphere thickens as horror clings...
on particles sparring to rinse fearful things...
dreadful needs head out to shower off grime...
by a mission accomplished in some record time...
a slower flow trickles up clogged nowhere drains...
resistant to bubbles cleaning troublesome pain...
brass spigots open for high-pressured valves...
to wash away doubt throwing in any towels...
recycled by dust stirring death's molecules...
facades of refreshment get served up to fool...
amid corpses of chores letting time pass on by...
to hide uniform cries before their last dying sigh...
a ratified gain in moves of mistakes to destroy...
life gives itself living for future sacrifice ploys...
false notions breed faster than any disease...
and perpetuate motion that won't let it be...
dismembered innocence cut to the core...
remembers each piece beaten up by a war...
taking thoughts past a way of unthinkable acts...
to claim curses far worse with rehearsed artifacts...
in syndromes of deeds upon hard tattered yards...
the battlefield remnants yield permanent scars...
as basket case caskets foretell ghostly tales...
that won't cremate hell until eternity fails!...
~~~
(spare a prayer for folks everywhere...
for souls at a loss for life...
for hearts at a loss for love...
for minds at a loss for truth...
spare a prayer for folks everywhere ! )...
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right to bear arms...
left to bear weight...
right to bear babies...
left to bear fate...
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(stone i'm coming home)...
a childhood is done for good...
won't be coming back anymore...
a taste of life has died in haste...
see what he gave us in war...
"stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my boots still on...
remember me when i am gone...
...gone home"...
a young one's dreams cry silent screams...
lying by humanity's door...
a taste of life has died in haste...
see what he gave us in war...
"stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my boots still on...
remember me when i am gone...
...gone home"...
a wounded heals in pain so real...
it takes away an aim to cure...
a taste of life to die in haste...
see what he gave us in war...
"stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my boots still on...
remember me when i am gone...
...gone home"...
a spirit just like yours and mine...
won't need the heart he wore before...
a taste of life has died in haste...
see what he gave us in war...
"stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my boots still on...
remember me when i am gone...
...gone home"...
("stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my dog tag on...
the names on your face are all gone...
...gone home"...
"stone... stone...
i'm coming home...
with my boots still on...
remember me when i am gone...
...gone home")...
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a heartfelt wishingwell to each'n'everyone!...
(god love each'n'all!)...
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(a soldier's last breath)...
a soldier's last breath boards life's central express...
with a ticket for good-bye to folks he loved best...
in some boxcar of messages heading back home...
his shares a dark corner with stowed-away bones...
he's hoping they'll know the sad truth of that glory...
those alive left behind can't quite tell the whole story...
to live and define how much time short term meant...
won't cover lost blood once it's turned permanent...
in the mist-chilling shadow of a roadkill gone cold...
some warmth left from memory inherits long holds...
bequeathing strong light through the will to survive...
it leaves vivid reminders to bring into view and revive...
shall the loss of his presence be enough to withstand?...
falsehood's soothing excuses from the halls of command?...
and can the strength he's been buried with dig up each lie!...
that's given bogus men reasons to let decent men die!?!...
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(flame fan)...
he fanned that flame till the well burnt dry...
while waiting for fuel from some refill guy...
then he tried to ignite another pile of sticks...
by enough degrees needed to heat up swift kicks...
he rubbed sides together but only so good...
for those suffering splinters to harbinger wood...
as lingering friction spawned fast-acting blunders...
blowing over all deals that worked real wonders...
soon nostrils and crowd folk poked noses in too...
around whiff-sniffing stench drifting odors of rue...
with its scent reminiscent of bygone's return...
this lesson for history left life to unlearn...
pressure on memory-bank's handkerchief wrinkling...
extended red flags past a waivered re-inkling...
as young re-enactors played out that man's deed...
unapplauded by elders reprimanding bad seed...
next to shuttles of reasons not to follow that fellow...
holocaustic rebuttals still flexed other elbows...
hence preventative maintenance meant to keep fit...
couldn't fully ensure a straight edge to remit...
though nonetheless most gathered nerve up in hand...
hoping thwart attempts start before more from this man...
but speculation's blind date hit the public's sore eye...
like flesh on the lam of chagrined passers-by...
the brunt of his flaunt taunts went on for that spell...
binding more carbon copies in shortcuts toward hell...
till the crew he showed off to withdrew to their lairs...
amid rock woolen hard shells and soft blase fairs...
trouble rekindled its strength with strong holds...
as subsequent frequencies increased tenfold...
for those sparks that were struck fully tipped off that town...
(if they'd only known then how quickly things can burn down!)...
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(grace a place)...
grace a place with one's own face...
as duty fills a job to do...
while knowing not what's going on...
it shows up with good reason to...
aiming from a mirror's eye...
behind the scene is something else...
but who's aware of what's not there...
when a stranger calls upon itself...
to justify then wonder why...
a welcome mat has lost its step...
so swiftly missed as noticed not...
when slipping by kicks in to get...
that open house with arms around...
empty 'cept to celebrate...
as everyone who offered theirs...
used yours instead to compensate!...
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- (duty's adieu)...
duty's s eed bears heavily...
growing near a soldier's plot...
in a clearing left for open view...
through morning roll call's reveille...
those petals on forget-me-not...
stand tall 'mid early dew!...
death toll's bell upon its foe...
resonates for the sake of what...
its round of sound still rings anew...
where solemn taps from bugles blow...
their breath into forget-me-not...
salutes that sad adieu!...
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(national rage wager)...
commercial interest vested in...
political business profitting...
under government labels...
rigged to set the stage...
manipulated audit books...
compensated swaying looks...
endorsing forged performances...
to ignore the plea of national rage!...
whose country is it anyway?...
citizenship being held at bay!...
con the voter!... kill the soldier!...
human life is just a price to pay!...
sign me up to be more aware!...
human nature here or there...
a call of duty beckons all...
to add integrity to usa!...
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(soldier's soldier)...
and to the soldier's soldier...
whose call comes from within...
to keep life inside armed services...
from the harm of false leadership men!...
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(between a tear and a smile in america here and there)...
where greedy business men get paid to pretend to be government officials...
and sporting patriotic lapel pins is more important than saving soldiers' lives...
where sly skillful big shots kill that switch for integrity's quality workmanship...
and personal advantage takes over like a selfishly ill will determined to survive!...
hence commonplace must learn to decipher misrepresentation's infamous behavior...
and basic schooling won't keep fooling itself without teaching students about illusion...
hence honest labor replaces applications for apprenticeship in robotic rates of exchange...
and of the people and by the people and for the people re-group to reclaim a constitution!...
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(don't forget our vets!)...
who's at that soldier's battle as his tour of duty goes?...
who knows how he must live now in war's fatal ruin woes?...
while most civilians have it easier with daily functions still okay...
don't forget our vets and soldiers struggling to survive another day!...
who counts the soldier's losses where his tour of duty goes?...
who knows how much he's lost now in war's rubble ruin woes?...
while most civilians have it easier with healthy abilities still intact...
don't forget our vets and soldiers whose well-beings won't come back!...
who feels the soldier's inklings as his tour of duty goes?...
who knows how he must think now in war's fatal ruin woes?...
while most civilians have it easier with fewer killing scenes to face...
don't forget our vets and soldiers whose deadly memories never erase!...
who shares the soldier's dilemma where his tour of duty goes?...
who knows how much he's denied now in war's rubble ruin woes?...
while most civilians have it easier through basic life that remains to suffice...
don't forget our vets and soldiers who pay an unconstitutional overcharged price!...
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- (among rock'n'hard place formations...
from a group's individualships...
to its individual's partnerships)...
using round-abouts to face issues as home base gets left alone...
actions flounder under wobbly stakes in loose dirt's flexing tone...
till every pitch upon hits-or-misses fills to ditch a sloping bank...
of empty spaces in foundations where man infiltrates its rank...
why bother any conscience while long detours pave that course...
dodging bouts of earsplitting warnings interfering at their source...
for as deception seeps through crevices spreading all it may entail...
it leaves a will for future extensions to carry on what's doomed to fail!...
(all there is to learn from our past...
can leave alot to unlearn sometimes)...
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