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Children Are Our Future

Pick up your rifle obedient child
Live a complete life in just a few days
Under your Sergeant's command 
Curl your finger around the trigger
Kill with an unrepentant glee

I witness the hate that coarses through your veins
Seeping into you with the clarity of a true believer

A moments hesitation will not stand in your way

"Be all that you can be!"
Everything has prepared you for this day
Tighten the ammo belt around your waist
Tomorrow you will be hailed as conquering son
Empty your guts upon the expectant soil
Red poppies will sprout from the acrid soil

We will cry out to you promising Justice 
Ordering the next child to the front of the line
Repeating the sins of all our fathers
Death meanwhile,  gladly accepts our gifts!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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Date: 10/19/2016 2:12:00 PM
Wow. That is powerful!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 10/19/2016 6:50:00 PM
Thanks Heidi.
Date: 1/26/2016 10:17:00 PM
Richard, Congratulations on your winning poem. XOX - LINDA -
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 2/21/2016 9:52:00 AM
Thanks Linda.
Date: 1/26/2016 2:41:00 PM
Wow! Very powerful and a message the world needs to hear.
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 2/21/2016 9:51:00 AM
Thanks Monterey.
Date: 1/18/2016 9:01:00 AM
Richard, A very nice win. Hugs **SKAT**
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/18/2016 9:21:00 AM
Thanks SKAT
Date: 1/16/2016 11:44:00 PM
The truth in this is painful to my heart. Beautifully written. Congratulations on your win.
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/17/2016 12:05:00 PM
Thanks Scott.
Date: 1/14/2016 10:55:00 AM
#7 truly underrates this magnificent piece.. Absolutely brilliant
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/17/2016 12:05:00 PM
Thanks Funom.
Date: 1/11/2016 2:01:00 PM
Good. Poem. Csnt post more. Dr made house call. Had shot for psin. More tomorrow
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/12/2016 8:48:00 AM
Get well soon Eileen! Hugs Rick.
Date: 1/11/2016 10:05:00 AM
What a great acrostic Richard! Truth in every line. Death has a voracious appetite in time of war.
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/11/2016 10:35:00 AM
Thanks for the visit and comment John.
Date: 1/11/2016 5:59:00 AM
Richard your pen bleeds heinous truths, with powerful imagery, energy, and girth. There is no invisible elephant in this piece! :),jill
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/11/2016 7:26:00 AM
Thanks Jill, it saddens me to see so many of of our beautiful young people sacrificed on the alter of ego. Thanks for visiting and commenting.
Date: 1/11/2016 3:15:00 AM
Richard, this such a tragic truth that is happening not only here in Phil but throughout.. I hope change will come soon.. ~Olive Eloisa =`)
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/11/2016 7:29:00 AM
Yes, it has gone on somewhere in the world since the fall of man. One day soon our Prince of Peace will change this forever. Thanks for your visit.
Date: 1/11/2016 3:09:00 AM
What a horrific story! What a geat truth! Thousands of years of wars have brought not any solution and humanity refuses to change course of action! Time to change if we wish to have children in the future! Excellent dear Richard!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/11/2016 10:38:00 AM
You bring us peace every day with your words of wisdom.
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Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/11/2016 7:40:00 AM
Richard, probably you do not remember but I work for peace for forty years now and my last book: An Aegean Breeze of Peace" which I am a co-author deals with peace in our area where Greeks and Turks are fighting each other for over 12 centuries. My co-author is a Lady from Turkey Dr. Hulya Yilmaz, professor of comparative literature! I try my friend, I try!
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Richard Lamoureux
Date: 1/11/2016 7:32:00 AM
Thanks for brining weight to the conversation Demetrios! Blessing and peace to you and those you love and may those you love spread peace throughout the world.
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