If you'll allow me a repost. A poem I wrote for Veteran's Day last year

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If you'll allow me a repost. A poem I wrote for Veteran's Day last year

Edited on Sun Nov-11-07 07:05 AM by shadowknows69

Veterans All

I was a lion when we met in the jungle, yet hunted also was I.

Scorpion on blazing sand, stinging fast but adder lies in wait.

Mighty Leviathan swimming in the oceans but the sharks came from below.

Near Belgium's shores, in Vietnam's jungles, in the wastelands of Iraq.

Who was predator and who was prey? Was the monster the victor? Did a victim lose the day?

It wasn�t our fight, or maybe it was.

Thrown together by far away men. Seeking significance with our blood.

Would we have been friends? Could we ever now?

Not so different we two. Just fighters.

Veterans All.

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