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[sid] => 24353
[catid] => 1
[aid] => Mick
[title] => I Wish To Die With Honor
[time] => 2003-10-04 06:05:00
[hometext] => This is my favourite poem that I have written...
[bodytext] => To see the beauty of the earth We must first close our eyes To material things and their petty worth And open them to God’s blue skies For if we live in our own world Blind to others pain and ways If by the wayside our morals are hurled As we violate them every day- Then I wish for God to take me now Back to the heavens in which my soul was born Be buried deep with the cool soil on my brow While above me earthbound souls still mourn For I wish to have no part In the world that I see today A crumbling world-falling apart As ethics and principles fall away No, I do not wish to wander In a world ruled by dollar and gun I would rather die with honor Than live in a world that has none [comments] => 1 [counter] => 165 [topic] => 43 [informant] => scott [notes] => [ihome] => 1 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => oops )
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