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Thoughts For A Military Man.

He arrived home

dead

with a still beating heart

He woke up

still asleep

though with sleepless eyes

the child is absent from

where this man now stands

though fragile still in his repressed memories

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malia-kay-lewis

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Published: Apr 8, 2010
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