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War Times

May 18, 2012
By CrazyGirl01 SILVER, Gibbon, Minnesota
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"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~Albus Dumbledore

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War.
You can't escape it.
It's here.
Waiting for someone to find it.
Striking when you don't expect it.
Taking pieces of all of us,
As it sweeps through.
You can run as fast as you want,
But you can never hide.
Can't hide from what's inside you.
Look at me.
It found me.
It will take pieces of me,
Or just maybe the whole thing.

© Steve S., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
I wrote this in my US History class. We were shown a photo of a man laying in the rocks. We couldn't tell if he was died or dying. We were told that we had two minutes to write a poem about the picture. Afterward we found out he was, in fact, dying. This was mine.
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CrazyGirl01 SILVER said...
on Jun. 2 2012 at 8:01 pm
CrazyGirl01 SILVER, Gibbon, Minnesota
7 articles 2 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~Albus Dumbledore

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Please be careful of the bad ratings on all of my articles. Many of the bad ratings on here are from someone with a bad grudge against me. She only gives bad ratings of my articles, because she's trying to hurt me any way possible.