New Stars

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    New Stars
    Your papers came this morning
    Your blank face stared at the coffee
    As if it had the answers you sought,
    Held my hand in supplication
    Cursing the war in desperation
    How men died when they were fought
    Just because everything changed
    Doesn’t mean it’s not been like this before
    You march off to war
    A tear marring your face
    Saying goodbye
    But I raised my hand to your lips
    Stilling those words, I can’t hear them
    Not now, not ever
    Stead I turn you to the sky
    Tracing the constellations
    And pointing to my guiding star
    ‘Look to that when you are lost,
    Follow it, let it guide your feet
    Along a path that they can never forget,
    Come home to me’
    You shake your head in anger
    Yelling that I should know
    ‘That star ends at the country border
    I’ll sleep under a new sky
    With foreign stars
    Hidden by the smoke’
    You shove my hand away
    And stride off to war
    Believing you are already lost

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    Paint1954 commented on New Stars

    07-28-2009

    I liked it, sad but true how war brings these feelings how war brings separation how war brings death to our loved ones.
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    WordSlinger commented on New Stars

    07-26-2009

    Another goodie, original and creative again, reminds me of star wars, :)
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    nickyssecrets commented on New Stars

    05-07-2009

    I really enjoyed this one. The ending is sad, but it makes it hit home in many ways. Thank you for sharing.
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    caspiancri commented on New Stars

    03-16-2009

    nice
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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