5/28/12

Memorial Day

I wrote this and posted it a couple of years ago but wanted to re-post it to honor those who serve.

-Plastic Figurines-


Toy soldiers don't bleed.
No need
to repair
their tiny plastic
legs and arms
after pretend warfare.

Toy soldiers don't grieve.
Figurines
don't weep on sleeves
of fellow families.

Toy soldiers don't die.
No twenty-one gun salute.
No black suits.
No folded flag burial
or half mast memorial.

No,
toy soldiers don't die,
grieve
or bleed
like real life
army and marines.
No,
this is not playtime
this is not make believe.

5/25/12

-Only He-

Only He
can mend the cracks
in the glass
of my past.

Only He
puts faith
in my faithless chest
when times of stress
make me trust less.

Only He
can bear this burden
and tear the curtain
to make me free.

Only He
pulled the bullets
from the devil's gun
and claimed the battle won.

Only He
dipped His shoulder
to knock down the boulder
and stride out strong
into the morning sun.


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6/10

5/23/12

-Evil Undone-

Rape,
murder,
corruption of young.
Lies,
deception,
slanderous tongues.

Someday evil acts
will be undone,
that time is not now
that time has not come.

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8/10