Poems On Site: 198,500+ Comments On Poems: 427,000+ Forum Posts: 105,000+ |
Custom Search
|
|
||||
Welcome ! | Home · FAQ · Topics · Web Links · Your Account · Submit Poetry · Top 30 · OldSite Link | 12-June 20:00:30 AEST | ||
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
Array
(
[sid] => 136291
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => THE BULLET THAT STRUCK HOME
[time] => 2007-07-28 08:54:23
[hometext] => the pain carries on long after they took the bullet out
[bodytext] => as i stand rifle in my arms vest on tight i stand my guard with no one in sight no idea what will come to my post at the small hours of the night when a drunk comes to my sight i try to send him away he just wont go away the insults come from his drunken mouth i try to ignore but he pushes on tell i cant stand him any more then i have him taken away if it where just that simple to make a call and have all your problems go away the night came where the call came and i had to travel to the problem half way around the world to where i have never gone to a land completely new no one knew me we all dressed the same the only things that ever changed where the stripes on my shoulder even in the land of the new i would stand beside my post till the unexpected bullet came it hit so hard and came so fast i knew not where it came from only where it stopped firmly in my body my shoulder would not move my arm was numb what was i do to so i made the call the help arrived they never found who sent the painfull bullet still months later the pain continues even when i have returned home to a job of no meaning where i still remain unknown even at home [comments] => 1 [counter] => 147 [topic] => 6 [informant] => physcoquack [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 4 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AngryPoetry )
|