Wise Soldier


Nowhere to go, no escape found
tired and dirty he is homebound.
With nothing but loss and despair in his wake
he looks aside for his wife's sake.
Seeing the good in a world full of bad
he no longer feels that he should be sad.
He is a soldier that knows what is right
and sees the wrong in this awful plight.

Life


Life is short,
time's contort.
Make something new to replace the old
but never do what can't be told.
Others believe in what they see,
but what I don't get is how they plea.
I travel here, I travel there,
in my dreams I smell the air.
I look beyond where I am blind,
I look behind to nothing kind.
There seems no end to worries and woes,
my life has always gone too slow.
I worry here I worry there,
my thoughts are racing everywhere.
I wish I knew what I deem,
I wish I saw what can't be seen.
My life has raced before my eyes,
it's time for me to say good bye.
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this poem is getting PUBLISHED!!!!! im so happy! and it got ediitors choice award in the contest i entered it in in the first place! i didn't win...but that's ok
the contest i entered it in was on www.poetry.com
and just so u can find my poems my name is Ellen Richardson