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The Last Breath

 

As bullets pierce my flesh

disconnecting body from soul

I move on

hoping I’ve fulfilled my life’s goal

 

You see I was a soldier

fighting a war

Defending my country

even though I really didn’t understand what for

 

Defending its honor and pride

against strangers I’d never before seen

On a battlefield

that’s a nightmares dream

 

Flesh and blood falling

like rain upon the sand

Dotting the landscape

with pieces of man

 

And through the horror of it all

I continued on

Thinking I was helping to pioneer

a new dawn...

....of peace and freedom

 

Now as my blood stains the foreign sand

and my breath grow short

I begin to see

the confusion in which I was caught

 

And with my last few breaths

I ask to be forgiven

for not questioning the source

by which I was driven

 

©2004 Frank E. Robinson, Jr.

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