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SILENCE SURROUNDED ME CARRYING ONLY 
DATA FROM SPECIAL FORCES I'D RELEASED 
MY SOUL BEFORE THEE ENTRY MY THOUGHTS 
COVERED IN SURVIVAL SKILL
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

AN YET THERE WAS NO WAY OF SURVIVING 
THEE ULTIMATE ASSASINATION THREAT 
THAT BESTOWED ME UPON THIS DAY
CAREFULLY PLANNED I MUST SAY 
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME

ASSAULT RIFLES LEANING AGAINST 
THE COMPLEX WALLS FRIENDS AND FOE 
GATHERED FROM BERLIN TO BERUIT  
A SINGLE SHOT MOUNTED
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

OVER MY TEMPORAL LOBE BACK UP 
CLEAVERLY PLANTED ABOVE MY FRONTAL LOBE
AN ANGEL GABRIELLE WEARING A PASTEL ROBE
THE JEST OF DEATH IS WHAT I PROPOSED
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

ON THIS FINE DAY THE SUN BEAMED BRIGHTLY
OF LEFT OVER AUTUMN HINTS OF INDIAN SUMMER 
GREENWICH BESEECHED MY WITHERED SOUL 
CARDINIAL NUNNS RABI'S INSISTED WHITE CLOTH
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

TAMPERED WITHIN AN INFALLIBLE HUSH 
WHEN ALL I EMPLOYED WAS A TANGLIBLE SCREAM 
I SO DESPERATELY COVENANT THOUGH OUT DI VATICAN
A KNIGHTS OWN SPHERE OVER LOOKING MORTALITY
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME
 
THE HAMPTONS CAMEBRIDGE IN VIEW A SIGHING COO
WE'D MASTERED TRUTH AND FAILED AT LAUGHTER 
CREATING A MELANCHOLY SOLACE WHY CENTERED 
BENEATH A PAIR OF BLOOD SOAKED BAILEY'S
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME 

EMPTY AN YET OVER FLOWING WITH BITTER FRET
CONFUSION WRATH A SORTED BIAS TO THE NOTION 
THAT FROM NOW ON EVERY SINGLE DAY WOULD BE 
NOVEMBER TWENTY SECOND NINETEEN SIXTY THREE 
BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME

THE DAY SHAMROCKS WELPT OVER ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL 
THAT FINE DAY CAMELOT SLEPT IN NEVER READING 
THE MORNING PAPER LEFT FOREVER DANGLING UPON
AN UNDIVIDED GRASSY KNOLL HENCE THE SAME
SIMPLY DONE BECAUSE OF YOUR NAME

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Date: 11/17/2013 6:55:00 AM
Wooow ... very good and deep poem !!! - Good work, Yolanda !! - oxox // Anne-Lise :)
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Yolanda Joy Nicholsen
Date: 1/21/2018 9:00:00 AM
Thank you very much sunshine

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