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[aid] => mick
[title] => I Cried Forever
[time] => 2012-06-27 01:31:16
[hometext] => About mine and all our ancestors. This poem isn't about eternal mourning. This poem is about eternal war. It could have started anywhere, but it had to end with my last real experience with war. There are many others living it completely now!
[bodytext] => In the twentieth century I cried many tears. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria were the tears of my fathers. I then realized there were older tears in this land. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe of the indigenous peoples and Chief Black Kettle. The tears of Abraham Lincoln and the letters of Private John R. Miller and many tears before them. Then the memories of the stories told by my family's patriarchs, of the Greatest Generations War, WWII. They weren't called the "Greatest" when they told those stories. They did their duty. They were only men and women. Then the stories of Dresden and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, told by the people who lived through the fires and atomic hells. Then I cried for my friends who fought at Hamburger Hill. I listened to the stories of the Mai Lai massacre. I suffered with my friends who became heroin addicts as they tried to cope with America. Then a deeper emotion emerged. I wept for everything that ever happened and everything that would ever happen. I cried forever. [comments] => 5 [counter] => 278 [topic] => 57 [informant] => RobinMorgan [notes] => Corrected spelling per request ~ Moderator_18 June 27, 2012 Please do not comment on your own work. Your comment on this poem has been removed. You can send someone a private message if you wish to respond to them. Removed comment and added to author's note. If you need editing, please see site help (left side of homepage). Thank you. Moderator_18 [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 0 [associated] => [topicname] => war )
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