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Child's Play |
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I don't want to play war
Not ever again... not no
more
I sit alone and remember back then
Pretend my
brothers are here again
As a child I would sit in the
dirt
Dressed in my shorts and play shirt
Take my
toy soldiers and play some war
My big brothers they
showed me more
The neighbor boys, we played with them
They even had some G.I. Joes so trim
We would draw a
line and then have a war
We played by the rules, they
don't... anymore
With little stones the enemy soldiers we
would bomb
They don't use little stones ...they use
napalm
They grew up... and I seemed to stay like
child
They'd still play war with me once in a while
Brothers and the neighbor boys, they went to war
Neighbors came home, but brothers won't anymore
We
used sticks for our guns to make the soldiers run
Real
rifles was used to make my brother's lives done
Not even
G.I. Joe , him so being so great and so trim
Could stop
the bullets and big bombs and save them
I don't want
to play war
Not never again... not no more |
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By Faye Sizemore
Copyright 2002
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June 12, 2011 |
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About
Author...
Faye Sizemore makes her home in the beautiful foothills of South Carolina with Grant, the love of her life, as well as three dogs, two cats, two parakeets and four nanny goats. Grant is a Vietnam Veteran having served with the US Marines in 1968-69 and is, of course, Faye's muse. Faye is deeply interested in Veterans' Affairs and Veterans' Causes. She is very proud of Grant and her poetry is an off-shoot of that pride.
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