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M M Sii Poem
I awake from a distant dream....
Thinking of all I'd seen
Remembering what was in my mind's eye
Such sad, sad thoughts of a time gone by
I remember the heat of the desert and the dangers of camouflage men
of small villages.......and the people within
I recall a child.......I can still see her smile
Black was her hair, her hands they were oh so small
I can still see her face.........I remember it all
Erelah, yes that was her name
and ever since I met her my life's not been the same
She's come to our station almost everyday
coming for her hunger, always to play
running round and round, hiding from us all
I still can hear her laughter........ I remember it all
She was such a small girl, born into this ruthless world
A world where men prey upon men, and life is discarded like sand to the wind
Sunlight and shadow
One illuminates the other falls
As the days become weeks, my distant home calls............
Messages of distress come over the wire
they speak of death, fire
of a small village, of evil men who rape, murder, and pillage
Cloaked with the tools of Azreal, the LZ erupts
Awash in wind and sand, the subdued helo lifts us in the air
Nap-of-the-earth quickly, mountains, valleys pass by fast
Distant souls burning, we ascend upon the village at last
Pyre smoke engulfs the senses, swirling around and around
Helos hover above, as we swiftly descend to the ground
The toils of evil men are revealed in the dawn's light
The departed are scattered about as we desperately scour for life
From one burnt out structure to another
We find nothing but hopelessness and despair
The dead and the dying, only Iblis has been here
I recognize a familiar door, one I have passed through many times before
Reluctantly I peer in, and to my sadness I see
Little Erelah laying by her mother, still deep in a dream
But from this dream she'll not awake, nor shall she ever play
For her innocence and life were taken, both taken on this day
Never to learn to read, never to learn to write
Never to run and sing again, due to man's mindless strife
I promised to protect the children ever since that day
And always defend them against man's evil ways
And never, ever forget her
That angel from above, or her simple message
LOVE.........
To me she was a moment of Spring, in a lifetime of endless Winter
She is but a dream..........
Copyright © M M Sii | Year Posted 2022
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M M Sii Poem
I can't seem to stop dreaming of the scattered bodies that lay along the way
They lost their lives years ago, but still live in me till this day
I can still see their faces, their eyes watch me so
My mind takes me to these places, to torture my troubled soul
And I'm tortured for taking the only true possession we hold in this world
Life.....and I've taken it from the young, and from the old
And this has made my heart heavy, blood cold
Sleep....I can never truly sleep
For each time I lay my head to rest, they come for me
Taking me back to that time when they lived and breathed
Doomed... am I doomed to dream on and on, nightmare after nightmare, until my soul is gone?
Oh, how I pray they'll leave me and let me live my life
It seems I cannot find love with this horror that's inside
I wish I could be like a child who never lost their innocence
But this wish can never be until I'm forgiven for my sins
Copyright © M M Sii | Year Posted 2022
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