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Door Reflection Of Guilt

by Walter Jones (Age: 67)
copyright 01-12-2009


Age Rating: 16 +




Door swings wide
Smell of disinfectant
Burnt of death everywhere
Eyes hurt and pain
He holds my hand
Barely warm
Looks up
I answer
Time is past God forgives

Not an answer easily given
Long bouts with a bottle
Sleepless nights
Charge of life turned to died

Why never answered in the pits of hell
Just soldiers in arms crying both sides

Now the VA center
Recovering drunks
Addicts of can't take it anymore
Crippled in mind and soul

Dying a hundred death
Was it not the valour that only dies once
Guilt ridden
Yet I return with street
He needed me and sleep

Door swings wide
Smell of disinfectant
Burnt of death everywhere
Eyes hurt and pain
He holds my hand
Barely warm
Looks up
I answer
Time is past God forgives






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        02-01-2009     Raja Sharma        

Dying a hundred death
Was it not the valour that only dies once
Who would not marvel at the lines like this, Sir?
The poem has really shaken me and I will have to read it over and again to appreciate it fully. Two readings have brought me to the conclusion that the diction is so powerful that it will definitely penetrate the minds of the readers.
God bless you
Rajasir

        01-14-2009     Susan Brown        

This reflection is a hard glance, into a place, nobody likes to travel. Guilt is a nasty wound that takes time to heal, any which way, you look into it. Cold is the sensation felt at every twisting turn. Glad you invited forgiveness in there at the ending line, for otherwise, where would we go "when" soul searching in a valley this deep?
Susan



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