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Battle of Drums

December 21, 2013
By mady.neal GOLD, Monrovia, Indiana
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The deathly drums beat into my head
I'm the walking dead.

The untouched army marches on;
We won't last another dawn.

Thundering approach, that shattering drumming,
They keep coming, and coming. Numbing.

We are done
Though the battle hasn't even begun.

© Lindsay S., Billings, MT

The author's comments:
This poem came to me after learning more about the Israelites and Jericho. They marched around the wall for 7 days, and just that simple act struck fear into the hearts of Jericho.
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