{"id":1079,"date":"2016-12-13T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2016-12-13T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:59:14","slug":"ten-thousand-words-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2016\/12\/13\/ten-thousand-words-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Thousand Words of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Ten thousand words written that the masses may know how I feel, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Printed upon electronic pages with ones and zeros that seem surreal,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Antiquity has overcome my frame yet my mind must release my heart, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When the darkness of forever overtakes my vessel I leave words to part, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Unspoken words sprinkled upon tomorrow&#8217;s paper of plastic to be read, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A fairytale of modern yore of an angel that came to be from inside my head, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">No villainous wolf hidden beyond the hill but of truth from a country boy, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Clad with only fear and void the armor of old he too was forced to deploy, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million voices cried across the land resounding words of youthful revolt,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The men of draft became forgotten victims of gunpowder&#8217;s resounding jolt,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And the seeds planted within his heart grew beyond his ability to contain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">While his brother&#8217;s of war cried to be seen as the cruel truth of a dark stain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the ashes of destruction and a thousand miles from nowhere she came, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A soft vision from the place of his birth brought comfort to a tortured brain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Appearing in the distance too far from reach yet it was known she was there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Near a duplicate of the photograph he tenderly held at night stroking her hair, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As he whispered tender words of love from within the silence he&#8217;d not said, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then began the searing of dragons breathe as napalm danced above his head, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Non yielding to the roaring sound as others ran he stayed with her as they fled, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With a tear of goodbye to a vision he left to find mortar had left the others dead, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Through raging storm he survived with the iron will of unworn armor but her, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Villagers fled their homes as flying iron dragons belched fire in a warring offer, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">They carried children and freed many more yet reported word said other, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As children fired upon men defense came hard and men soon cried for mother, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She came to him that night and reached to place her hand upon his chest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Will I ever come home to hold you again he cried as he worried the rest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Known to not be afraid yet fear raged deep inside that he&#8217;d never go home, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Near midnight she would come and each night he spoke to an image unknown, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Times passage found him in many other lands of foreign tongue and word, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Missions of secret surveillance of a red land most likely now sound absurd, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She continued to give support when desperation came to him she&#8217;d appear, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From loving her he found comfort and direction to overcome his growing fear, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Gathered in a smoky room the men gathered round for beer and tales of yore, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Revelation of his secret came from one stationed with him over a year or more, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He secretly speaks to an angel when he&#8217;s afraid but we know it&#8217;s in his head, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Unknown to all they&#8217;d never gather with him again but not from anything said, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In the darkness of the room he was whispering to someone outside the window, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And some saw her form in the air as escaping smoke surrounded her to show, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">If of his mind the energy of his love placed her there to be seen by more than one, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Worry showed upon her beautiful face as she warned of atrocities to be done, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Will I ever come home he softly asked of her then he said hello, to restart it all, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As her faint form began to fade from their view the men who saw tried to recall, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Those of little faith that believe in nothing saw nothing as she was of the heart, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A tender moment planting seeds of future love that now have a chance to start, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">\u00a0Instead of sleep he wrote comforting words of love if he was laid to rest in loam, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And the war moved from war&#8217;s stage to subways, buses, and the roads of home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Secretly he crossed into the hidden war filled with more fear than he had known, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Clutching her photo tight he knew the seeds of his destiny had been sewn, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Of her and for her he said to himself as memories of protestors hate came too, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">What is death&#8217;s value for soldiers that are vigilant on foreign soil for likes of you, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A trip home brought questions of patriotism he had never known before, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Deeply injured by protestors venomous contempt for the drafted men to war, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million words written of hate yet non mentioned the hero&#8217;s left behind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Headlines showed horrible acts of a criminal few to brand all of evil mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Memories of searching for her played over in his mind wondering where, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And now he stands on foreign soil remembering who he was back there, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The darkness of death had flavored his thoughts when at last he prayed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Words of love formed in his mind with need to write of her before love frayed, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The fear he knew was not of death but of her loss before departing the fray, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">That night before he left he did the unknown and knelt down to softly pray, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Someway somehow I pray return me to her arms no matter what I have to do, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">With but ten steps across the line pursuit began but soon beyond the two, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Was this the beginning of a miracle that would release him of military hold, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Prayers answered may inflict pain not thought of in pursuit of the gold, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And he ran and he ran as if a thousand years of life had run through his veins, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Pushing his will to extremes so great that even his will felt his will strains, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fear filled his body more than ever before as he realized his time may be near, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her photograph may be exposed he feared so he wrapped it securely up his rear, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million words of love sprinkled the debris of fallen structures in waste too long, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He felt the blow behind his head and made a vow to her that he would be strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each word he had written to her flowed through his mind as he tried to endure, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Photographs and poetry rhymes flowed from his heart as his mind felt secure, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Torment and pain interlaced his days in forms dating back to medieval times, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Upon a rack to stretch sinew and dislocate bone he wrote her pretty rhymes, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Some day I will return to you he vowed to kiss upon your nape of tenderness, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">My lips will trace your tender lines from shoulder to ear with my lips caress, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">She came to him in times so dire his spirit departed his beaten frame to rest,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Using wrapped wood to beat his flesh creating bruises deep below his chest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As he softly cried at night he whispered his poetry into her ear though unseen,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It became the norm to see him speaking to an angel no one else had seen, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Words written of an angel of beautiful form in places of mystical beauty, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To survive the meanest of men he dreamed of her in spite of their cruelty, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Once upon a darkened night with most light hidden by storm and blackout, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Some say they saw her there that night he pulled the cruelest intention out, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">It appeared he held her hand and spoke to her before he screamed in pain, \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without loving her a wire bush pushed into his raped rectum would remain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And he ran into the wilderness with her to escape the tortures for awhile, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For within his mind anything with her was possible just to see her smile, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her parted lips from a goodbye kiss remained embedded within his heart, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without time&#8217;s falling sand great memories of lover&#8217;s lore could not start, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million words in rhyme of loving her would be written for all to read, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One day the world will read of his love for her and his never ending need, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let&#8217;s have a round of applause sings a choir of angels in watch from above, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">One of our own has captured the heart of this iron willed man so deeply in love, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each night before midnight she prays for him and wonders if he is alright, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The pull on her heart is heavy as she senses her man has a dimming life-light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In feces he lays unable to stand as dislocation had taken its due in full, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The photo so lovingly placed deep inside is there floating in his blood pool, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her heart breaks to see the one she so loves so weak and unable to stand, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Is she a ghost of mental creation or from a conjoined dream of God&#8217;s hand, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A gentle uniting of love as her ghostly image lifts his torn lip for a tender kiss, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Her hazel eyes are soft with sorrow as she prays her man will remember this, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">In a dream of her heart she stands there in full praying he will soon be awake,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let him return to me whole she prayed, how much more can my poor man take, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">More blood filled the floor than what coursed through his veins this day, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each beat of his heart was amiss as it struggled to go on that he may stay, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The charge of her force flows from her tender hand as she presses his chest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Life force shared of her heart brought him from the light beyond earth&#8217;s crest, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A million words of spiritual visions and of love are written in attempt to explain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Printed upon paper and electronic pages the mysteries of visions still remain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He woke from beyond and looked around the cell to find her picture was free, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">As he struggled to move the most beautiful photograph was in front to see, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fear grew in his heart upon realizing tormentors hands would tear it apart, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let it be written upon these electronic pages he cleaned her photo to start, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He wanted to cleanse her photograph but he wore underwear made of mud, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">He used what he had and licked her photo clean of his feces and his blood, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Tears fell from his eyes as he feared her image may fade or even worse, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">What if her photograph was ruined because of what I did or didn&#8217;t disperse, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Losing her would break his heart as she was his only treasure of gold, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And the sound across America was of rage as hate of soldiers took hold, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Voices shouting hate against the war&#8217;s draft soon focused against the men, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Throwing stones and debris towards men in camouflage preventing a win, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Political unrest creates a scene as 50,000 voices unite against the force, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A movement flowed across the land that threw the soldiers far off course, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">To be drafted and then hated by those protesting the draft seemed unreal, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">What a contradiction to hate the poor drafted me that had no way to appeal, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Be drafted and shipped to war, become a deserter, or enlist were our choices, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And now we have no support from the United million strong protestor voices, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Three weeks ago he had been home to find the one he had sought was gone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Add to the misery of her loss the protesting masses seemed so wrong, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The loneliness he knew while performing covert ops returned in full, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Yet as he felt the miseries inflicted upon his frame he still felt her pull, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Because of rectal damage he hid her photo into a small crack in the wall, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The photo could not be placed within his frame because of damage and all, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The kindness of a captor brought water and vodka to kill his anal pain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A pressure wash shower cleansed the filth from his damaged frame, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His chest felt burned as he thought of the dream he had of angels touch, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">From the depth of his heart he felt her there, oh he longed for her so much, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Was it the pull of her he felt from so far away as if to pull him back home, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Within the cell a million words of love had fallen on the floor to be unknown, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Barely hanging on he cried for her as each dislocated joint created pain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each movement made created self inflicted pain much to his disdain, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Each whisper he spoke in poetry verse would remain forever in the cell, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">So many beautiful lines written for her that he memorized most to later tell, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Without her there in photograph or vision form he knew he couldn&#8217;t survive, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">When the darkness of death was near her beautiful face is what kept him alive, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">And his heart would rhyme in verse so beautiful each line would bring tears, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">A teenage angel of love that when he is in danger her beautiful form appears, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His release came in a detainee exchange although this was hardly his game, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The work he did was the dirty portion that made his experience the same, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Sometimes the lowest soldier endures more danger to help clear the way, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">For others to plan a secret attack that we may conquer and win the fray, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Thank you cell its time to go, thank you that she came in a vision to me, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Remember my love and the angel of my plight, the angel you couldn&#8217;t see, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Although my breath came hard she still took away my breath in a vision, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The pain I endured was well worth it, if to see my angel it was the admission, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">I thought I heard her say come home to me Pat I will take your hurt away, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Let me kiss your battered lips with butterfly kisses that will forever stay, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Told he&#8217;d have to walk across on knees dislocated but two weeks ago, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Hips as well along with shoulders he would cross the cage very slow, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Told to &#8220;Halt and be recognized&#8221; brought a great deal of stress to his mind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Fear of being shot during a stressful exchange brought sensations unkind, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">His battered and blackened face didn&#8217;t resemble the photo the M.P. held, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">Then out stepped John his friend to recognize him and all doubt dispelled, <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Alice;\">The smell of clean linens is now forever in his mind as Freedom&#8217;s smell, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; 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