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child soldier
Author: godawful teen-angst poetry  PM
In hundreds of countries, armies are taking children to serve on the front lines. Why? Because they are "dispensable." If a child dies, they can always take another. These children don't volunteer. They are stolen from their homes. Read and forward
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Words: 121 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 06-15-03 - id: 1330995
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Oh, forgotten heroes
victims
A thousand miles away
Crack
And bullets whipped
Around his head
Boom
Cannon's thunder
Can't remember
Mama's name;
Cries
And faint memories
A tiny child
Did he once hold her?
Crash, thud
So many times amplified
No one else noticing
Dust as he falls
Chaos
And swirling, he
Parched lips, reaches
Then remembers
I'm dying
And hand drops
Hope gone
Eyes are filming
White death blindness
On a young boy's face.
Many days later
A small mound of soil
Unmarked monument
A thousand miles away
Young mother still weeping
Still pauses at the window
Wondering…
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