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Used to be
by Darkest Angel → (All Poetry by Darkest Angel)
Tuesday, January 17, 2017    Rated "R" by the Author.
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I have never been in the military--this writing is only my perception. I do love my country, and I would go to war for it--as I would for my family or myself.

“Used To Be”



We used to be friends
We used to be lovers
We used to
Love
Laugh
And smile with each other
There used to be time to play
Times have changed
Now I’ll see you when
My prior’s free me to go
Listen to my starving heart—
Sounding off like a weapon of war
I put on fatigues
I’m gone to war
My country called me
Now I fight my assigned enemy
Become a prisoner of war
Now my country doesn’t know me anymore
Lonely
Lonely, lonely
Swim in the tears my family cried
While trying to find me ....
No Affect
My country's heart
Is like broken stone ...
See
If I return alive ...
A shrink to fit me
Back into society
Over in a flash
That’s why—
We used to be friends
We used to be lovers
We used to
Love
Laugh
And smile with each other
There used to be time to play
Times have changed
Now I’ll see you when ...
We rise from these ...
Greed gotten
Graves ....






Written By, Darkest Angel
(Written July 29, 1993)

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