<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sonnet to the Wounded Warriors</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I Once Was A Warrior<br> A Sonnet to the Wounded Warriors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once was a warrior, but now today, <br> My battlefields are not so far away.<br>The foe that I face have no weapons of might, <br> Anxiety and worry are the enemy I fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once was a soldier, but now I sit, <br> No longer in a body that’s lean and fit.<br>No greater cause, no more fields of glory, <br> The guns are now silent, no friends, no war stories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once was a sailor, but now I lay, <br> Trapped in my body in bed all day.<br>As I watch the new men go off to war, <br> I will never again sail to distant shores.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once was an airman, the sky my domain, <br> But today just the memory is all that remains.<br>As I gaze out my window in the dark of the night, <br> Knowing I never again will take flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a Marine, and I always will be, <br> Broken, not bowed, though my eyes cannot see.<br>The hospital halls now the trails that I take, <br> The pain that’s inside, the new enemy I face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I once was a warrior, but now today, <br> My battlefields are not so far away.<br>The foe that I face, I face in my home, <br> And my greatest of battles I must face alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1/6/05</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gary+Bryson">Gary Bryson</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=543665" data-title="A Sonnet to the Wounded Warriors de Gary Bryson" data-description="I Once Was A Warrior A Sonnet to the Wounded Warriors I once was a warrior, but now today, My battlefields are not so far away. The foe that I face have no weapons of might, Anxiety and worry are the enemy I fight. I once was a soldier, but..."></div> </div> </div>

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