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Taps Please Stop

July 30, 2011
By tina.joanne SILVER, Califon, New Jersey
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Taps plays
And I am just
Privately waiting for its end
So I can stop
Pleading for these tears to
Leave my eyes and
Even so, they fall faster.
And I listen and am
Sure that the melody
Echoes still through that
Snow where it started
That day in the
Open field where I just
Prayed to forget the folded flag.

© Hannah S., Avondale, AZ

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