<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472994" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Son</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You were once a live wire and full of beans, <br>with burning desires and endless dreams.<br>But you always wanted that little bit more<br>and a soldiers life appealed for sure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Opportunities to see the world and have a career<br>was enough to tempt any young pioneer.<br>You soon made friends and settled in<br>and enjoyed the life of soldiering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You did your tours and won a stripe, <br>but the killing part you didn’t like.<br>Seeing women and children covered in blood, <br>and comrades dying did you no good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you returned from Afghanistan<br>you came back a different man.<br>You tossed and turned in your sleep, <br>and shouted to God, your soul to keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You said you carried the smell of death<br>inside your nose and upon your breath, <br>and that you could never go back again, <br>and face the horrors that caused you pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you did return to those theatres of death, <br>but not as the boy I knew when you first left.<br>The realities of war had scared your soul<br>and your spirit of life was the heavy toll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</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=472994" data-title="My Son de Orlando Belo" data-description="You were once a live wire and full of beans, with burning desires and endless dreams. But you always wanted that little bit more and a soldiers life appealed for sure. Opportunities to see the world and have a career was enough to tempt any youn..."></div> </div> </div>

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