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"Immortal"
I write these words not set in a verse, not bound by rhyme or rule,
but felt from the heart, as
I am dying.
Our vehicle fell prey to the roadside sentence.
Now I lay here writing in the barren wilderness of the
Far East,
I hear another explosion ten miles to the north...
or maybe west...
I can't decipher the difference.
I look to my right and see my best friend drawing his
Final breath
His lips are moving saying
'I love you my brother...forever!'
the words powerful, the breath long and meaningful.
My own breath is becoming shortened and harder to draw
my mind falters and my heart ceases
and I am now just an
Apparition
like my
Friends, Comrades, Predecessors
that have
Passed
I continue writing this in the sand.
As I cry out questioning and wondering what was the point of
WAR?
There are no winners, no losers;
No one is bigger or better, nor
Higher or lower than anyone else.
I know my final hour is upon me now so aloud I pray
'As I lay my head down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
For I shall die before I wake
So I pray the Lord
My soul to
Take'
To take and remake as I crossover now into the Light
I am no longer living, but I continue
wondering
I am not lost but rather found...
yes, I will rest in
Peace tonight
although I have perished in
HELL
I can rest assured that my petty triumphs and personal defeats shall
NOT DIE,
not in VEIN,
nor in DESPAIR
not because of my FAME or FORTUNE.
But because all those who have
Boarded that plane out of
Canada
PAST,
PRESENT,
and
FUTURE
are truly
IMMORTAL
but felt from the heart, as
I am dying.
Our vehicle fell prey to the roadside sentence.
Now I lay here writing in the barren wilderness of the
Far East,
I hear another explosion ten miles to the north...
or maybe west...
I can't decipher the difference.
I look to my right and see my best friend drawing his
Final breath
His lips are moving saying
'I love you my brother...forever!'
the words powerful, the breath long and meaningful.
My own breath is becoming shortened and harder to draw
my mind falters and my heart ceases
and I am now just an
Apparition
like my
Friends, Comrades, Predecessors
that have
Passed
I continue writing this in the sand.
As I cry out questioning and wondering what was the point of
WAR?
There are no winners, no losers;
No one is bigger or better, nor
Higher or lower than anyone else.
I know my final hour is upon me now so aloud I pray
'As I lay my head down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
For I shall die before I wake
So I pray the Lord
My soul to
Take'
To take and remake as I crossover now into the Light
I am no longer living, but I continue
wondering
I am not lost but rather found...
yes, I will rest in
Peace tonight
although I have perished in
HELL
I can rest assured that my petty triumphs and personal defeats shall
NOT DIE,
not in VEIN,
nor in DESPAIR
not because of my FAME or FORTUNE.
But because all those who have
Boarded that plane out of
Canada
PAST,
PRESENT,
and
FUTURE
are truly
IMMORTAL
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