<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=361511" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Soldier Home From A War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Daymare demons spiral your head.<br>There is no rest in your soft bed.<br>Images of death reveal.<br>The guilt you hide, but feel.<br>A war of shadows.<br>Where you once fought.<br>In back gardens where children play<br>For only peace you wished and sought.<br>The grass green hills of your childhood remain.<br>But there, there was no death sign</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wife and kids you greet at garden gate.<br>They don’t see your inner hate.<br>They don’t see your embroiled conscience, <br>or know the infliction you bare.<br>They’re only too happy to have you home.<br>Home to love and share.<br>You are a soldier home.<br>A soldier home from a war, <br>Trying your guilt to hide.<br>Trying to forget the child you shot, that died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The war was someone else’s.<br>Why should you really care? <br>It only really strikes home, <br>when you see a child dying there.<br>Visions cloud your mind of voices in despair.<br>Why did we have to die so young? <br>Why did our mother’s have to mourn? <br>Soldier from another land, please tell us why? <br>The soldier’s forehead frowns.<br>The answer he can not give.<br>He was only sent there.<br>So other have a chance to live.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now his war is over.<br>Over his home he now resides.<br>But the voices of despair.<br>Still ring in his head.<br>He cries to himself in silence.<br>How can his conscience bare.<br>The purgatory it must go through.<br>Knowing he killed a child fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">18 July 1978</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</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=361511" data-title="A Soldier Home From A War de David Harris" data-description="Daymare demons spiral your head. There is no rest in your soft bed. Images of death reveal. The guilt you hide, but feel. A war of shadows. Where you once fought. In back gardens where children play For only peace you wished and sought. The grass ..."></div> </div> </div>

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