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Subject: Blood Tipped Thorns

Author:
Bill "The Songman"

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Date Posted: 06:26:27 11/28/07 Wed

Blood Tipped Thorns

Last night's fires perform a spiraled death dance,
Slowly falling in upon themselves.
Eating their fuel,
Extinguishing their life.
Now, only smoke remains.
Silently choking the morning light.
A heavy pall of death lay in the air.

Forlorn, Almost weary of life...

I trudge woefully out from the valley.
Today's remorse born in yesterday's war.
Behind lay a clearing strewn with dead roses.
Embraced by blood tipped thorns.

Death's odors stir in silence,
As generals rejoice, a victor's feast.
Mothers' lament, crying defiant.
When will we know peace?

How many must die, too save how many lives?
A paradox of human design.
An ambiguous mist rises tonight.
Do the dead taste the battle's defeat?

I scratch and crawl to the mountain top.
Fall to my knees and pray.
Please dear Lord, hear my heartfelt words,
As my tears drip from blood tipped thorns.

Bill

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