Broken Soilder

There lay the body,
Of a broken solider,
The explosion swiped him clean,
His slow breaths,
Breathing in the murky air,
All that was left,
Of that poor man,
Was body, leg and arm,
He had a wife and 2 kids,
But now no more,
I still hear his laugh,
Of jokes once betold,
No more laughs for awhile,
The D-Day had struck.


16/7/10
10:10am
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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September 25, 2010 at 7:32 AM
Thanks Nigel :) I was on a France trip with my school and we had to go round the war graves it was extremely emotional so on the way back to the chateux i wrote this piece :), Sarah x
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August 8, 2010 at 12:34 PM
This is a very good piece written with much emotion!
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