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[aid] => mick
[title] => Here I Stand
[time] => 2008-03-02 02:49:16
[hometext] => a story of an old man visiting the resting place of an old friend who fell in the great war
[bodytext] => Here I stand, adrift on the winds of memory Gazing out to an azure crystalline ocean While above me hangs a crimson-orange sky Upon the shore lay giant chasms Wounds across a once proud nation Scaring her once beautiful face Here I stand, Before your resting place here on this coast I told you I'd be back In this foreign soil you sleep To us, life has been cruel and most unkind Thrust into violence and death we were Guardians against evil, Heroes of the nation, Lambs to the slaughter On that day, oh how well i recall The skies rained blood and bullets The chasms left from god's great furry Making bowls of bodies and pools of blood Now old friend this land is at peace I wish you could see it now How much has changed, yet still stayed the same Now my old friend 80 odd years on, once more... Here I stand. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 185 [topic] => 48 [informant] => Immortal-Dragon21 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => EmotionalPoetry )
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