<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521252" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ghosts of War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within the fog of did you see? <br>An old woman, made up to the nines<br>Can be seen in the corner of the non-believers eye<br>Purse in hand and a glass of wine<br>Waiting for a lover who never comes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just shadows on the wall<br>Whispering names, through <br>Spiders silk, the inheritors<br>Of this forgotten, debutants ball</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While Portraits glare at vacant laughter<br>An echoed waltz swirls <br>The embrace of loves decay, <br>Images now jailed within the Crystal shards <br>Of a fallen chandelier</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tear of Woman wears mourning face well, <br>This vigil Mask hiding mortality lost<br>Now broken and marking time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love lies lost in the barbed wire of war<br>Fallen stars to shine no more<br>Their Remembrance merging into darkness<br>Behind a cloudless unforgiving sky </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone is the corpse in cratered field<br>Covered by poppies blood<br>Walked on by ghosts to come</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another Whispered soul is roaming <br>The guns have left their post<br>And Peace is just an illusion<br>For yet another Flanders ghost</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This cruel winter’s night<br>The withered rose has lost its fragrance<br>The champagne has all gone flat<br>And love calls without an answer<br>For silence is the memory<br>And it is we<br>Who walk hand in hand<br>With our ghosts of War?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Cooke">Steven Cooke</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=521252" data-title="Ghosts of War de Steven Cooke" data-description="Within the fog of did you see? An old woman, made up to the nines Can be seen in the corner of the non-believers eye Purse in hand and a glass of wine Waiting for a lover who never comes Just shadows on the wall Whispering names, through Spider..."></div> </div> </div>

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