By little_blue_man
Date: 2001 Sep 24
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[[2001.09.24.14.28.18685]]

Armistice Day

Hear the call across the fields
It echoes off the hills and trees
Through the thick smoke
A truce is desired
An invitation to sit
Swords sheaved
As men let us reason and heal the wounds
Yet amid the call for openness
Dark secrets squirreled away
Dirty deeds
Dirty deals
In the shadows
Seen out of the corner of my eye
Venomous whispers my ears detect
Echoing from the past
Here now in the present
It is assumed I don't know
But I do
Hear the stories of old soldiers
The Nazis would continue to fire
While waving a white flag
Bullets are whistling past my head even now
Rivaled only by the shouts of those shooting at me
As they call for peace all the while