on the war front

November 29, 2007 at 5:09 am (Poetry) (, , )

would you want balloons on the battlefield? those red ones the kids play with in parks and fields.

thru the shots fired, thru the plumes of smoke from rifles.

could the cluster of fun survive?

what would the soldiers hold if they saw them bouncing around in the air.

and then the soldier remembers… his time in the park,

running on the grass, holding his balloon.

would he pick up his gun and shoot at someone?

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