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War
Its that of setting sun

Valor and Honor radiate from the past

Beckoning us to stand tall and smile



The red, white and blues

shimmering brighter than a thousand suns



Yet when the brilliant colors dim

And the sun sets where is the beauty in war

For behind the medal

Behind the valory

Is countless caskets

Countless sleepless nights



We have only seen war

Even when we stare back into the darkness of humanity’s past

Our perception is shattered

Movies and good tales tainting our vision



We see a fabricated, glorified enlightened view of war



If only one could taste war

The blood in their mouths

The salt in the sea mist as they storm a beach



If only one could hear war

The screams of the dying

of the terrified

The barrage of bullets

of the explosions

The ringing in their ears



If only one could feel war

The bullets piercing their skin

The softness of a comrade’s hand as death drags him away

The coldness of the trigger



We only see the light of war

Glorifying its fleeting moments of beauty

Idolizing its heros

Fixating on thin threads of hope and sensibility



See the night

War is hell crawling out of the abyss of humanity’s shame and welled up anger

Into the light of mundane life

Snatching boys spitting them out as men

Fracturing reality

Tearing innocence

Gnawing at life



And so I wait

Let the parades drift by

Let the colors dim in the sunset

And than I look out

to see the darkness of my town

Imagining those restless soldiers

Transported back to those fields, those beaches, those jungles

They’ve never left only deceived in thinking they did



The darkness of war reveals its true colors

For in truth all colors, all smells, all feelings, all emotions, all experiences are war

And so I wait



For in the dark

I stare at the old flag waving gracefully and high still in the dark

I see the blood of soldiers seeping through the red

I see the lost innocence engrained in the white

I see the tears of soldiers pouring through the blue



For in the darkness of war I see its true colors
From my blog- https://reflectingonsociety.wordpress.com
 Nov 2015 AmyKatrinaSmith
Mash
I think I'm better off admiring things & people from a distance.
I always mess things up when I get too close.
Do not fall in love with a writer.

They make a work of art out of words so elegantly you get lost to the point of no return. They create spells and lay them on white-painted sheets of paper, chanting letters attached carefully your eyes become so dizzy with amusement. They weave strings upon strings of enticing poetry you poison yourself the moment you find yourself drinking to the last drop.

Do not fall in love with a writer.

They appear almost like angels, serene and calm, yet at the same time a guise of what you would deem as a form of destruction planned out in detail you do not notice a thing about the pain they will cause you. They will carve in your veins the essence of a prose about loving you (oh, the irony of it), and make sure you bleed the same words they first bit you with.

Do not fall in love with me.*

I will not think twice about writing the life I had when I'm with you. The crisp touch of your fingers with mine—the chapped nails and all that. The sweet singsong of your laugh echoing throughout the streets as we walked at half past five, anticipating the ray of the sun shining through to welcome another day. The scent of your breath as your lips danced slowly with mine. I will write all of these down, and you can never stop me. I will write and write and write about you, even if I run out of words to use, even if I grow tired of the sound of pen brushing paper or of fingers clacking keys; I will still continue to write about you.

I still have and perhaps I always will, even if now, you decided to leave me.
i thought
i won't be the one
to let you go
but now i'm the one
who is letting you go,
because of
a lesson
learned from life:
"if i let you go
you will surely
come back
to me"
or else
your memories
will fade away
i was abandoned in the cold. i grew psychotic as i grew. dont cross my back cause ill go completely insane on you. i run free from a society that is messed up with corruped ideas. every one follows social media exept i go down a new rout antie social freedom. im not a mean person but i am vary SHY. i will disappear to stay away from you finding me. i want to stay away from people who post **** about me. im not crazy

BUT IM SHY AND KINDA INSANE i am not mean but i dont want to get mixed in the wrong crowed if you know what i mean.

i dont need friends i never seen before i live in this world with a cold place in my heart away from the wrong crowed that tryes to **** me away i live a life that is cold and dark away from social media that tears lives apart
im so shy and careful to stay away from the wrong crowdes
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