<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Soldier's Reality</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The drums of war beat in the distance, <br>A constant beat of gun shots. <br>The men and boys fighting.<br>Waiting for the war to end, to go back home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sit in the cover of the long grass, <br>Guns loaded, hearts pounding.<br>They wait for a signal, a sign, <br>To rise, run, and fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till then they sit, watching, bullets passing by.<br>They watch people falling, their lives leaving.<br>Nothing matters to them except that they live, <br>That they get to see their family again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Smoke hangs in the air, <br>A thick mist that reminds them that they're at war, <br>Keeping them in reality, keeping their eyes open.<br>The constant rhythm of guns against heart beats, <br>Both pounding, both screaming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The black sky closing in on them, <br>Keeping them in the small battle that they can not escape, <br>They move back from the front line, <br>Move away from the fire, the death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some walk, some run, some cry, some pray, <br>But they all move on.<br>They all go back to camp, to wait for more death and pain.<br>For tomorrow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The talking goes late into the night.<br>Men and women desperate for happiness, <br>They sit around guns in hand, <br>Ready for anything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The shooting never stops, never leaves their minds, <br>Even in the depths of this black night, <br>Nothing ends except the next person's life, <br>Nothing is right, nothing is normal, nothing feels real, <br>But in truth and in the midst of everything so surreal, <br>This is the soldiers reality. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">by: bethany M.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Bethany+Maxwell">Bethany Maxwell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351080" data-title="Soldier's Reality de Bethany Maxwell" data-description="The drums of war beat in the distance, A constant beat of gun shots. The men and boys fighting. Waiting for the war to end, to go back home. They sit in the cover of the long grass, Guns loaded, hearts pounding. They wait for a signal, a sign,..."></div> </div> </div>

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