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Promise The Children (that they are in us)

Who has got a heart left?
Listen, the engine is running.
(There's nowhere to go.)
"Don't go, we're slipping away."
Who here even knows
That the children are gone forever?

There are countries left to the same moment
In which the children disappeared.
(Too late.)
And the rain is coming down
Outside.
They wish it was midnight still
So they could bring their children
Inside.
And the engine is running.
(We are
They are.
They are heard.
One with us.)
Lost lives
Remember their lives.
And wind whistling around walls.
But they won't die.
They take no regret
They take no remembrance
They say 'take us from here.'
And we can't.
But the rain is falling from a baby girl's cheeks
To a baby girl's feet
And "we hear their heartbeat".

Dear God, why can't we have Peace on Earth?

Author notes

The second-to-last line is taken from 'Mothers Of The Disappeared'. The 'running engine' symbolizes a world that is preparing to stand for the remembrance of the children taken from Argentinian parents, tortured, and murdered by the communists.
The flow may not be too great, since I was crying and listening to 'MOTD' as I typed it out, and I've edited it since then, but it's hard to join the original emotion to a calmer, better flow...

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  • maa gold member
    January 4, 2008

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    thank you for sharing this heartfelt poem with us ... it is important to speak about the situation in other parts of the world and the suffering endured by innocent ones ...

    god bless you,

    maa


  • Hope Angel silver member
    December 15, 2007

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    Great job... at first I didn't understand it... until I read the after notes. Than I felt this wave of pain and emotion. Good luck!


    • Dragomiloff
      December 15, 2007
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      Thanks...yeah, that's kind of how I felt. I was listening to the song, you know, like, this is a pretty song. I liked it, so I looked up the lyrics and then I found out the history and it kinda hit me in the guts...


  • parntsoftwins
    December 10, 2007
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    I really like this poem. The truth in it speaks so loudly, it is so sad. I ask myself that question all the time, why can't we have peace on earth?!?! I truly can not understand why children have to suffer, of all the people in the world, why them?!?! Such innocence ruined? Thank you for entering this in my contest.

    • Dragomiloff
      December 10, 2007
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      yeah...I don't UNDERSTAND. They hurt LITTLE KIDS! If anything is literally a 'crying shame', this would be it.


  • Loveandblessings2u gold member
    December 9, 2007

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    First let me ask you to please not 5 star my comment or coment me back in anyway at this time. I am trying hard not to find out who anyone is.

    This is a very touching poem, hit me right in my heart, had tears filling in my eyes. I would give anything to have peace on earth.

    thank for so much for entering my contest and I wish you lots of luck.

    Loveandblessings2u & yours always
    Joyce


  • Cari Cullen
    December 9, 2007

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    Very good emtion very good at with the moral at the end God why cant we have a peace on earth...good way to end the poem


  • Nostalgia
    December 9, 2007

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    You have a touch and talent for penning sadness and remorse, you have a great penning hand there, and I really felt the children's cries. Nice work.


  • LadyDementia gold member
    December 9, 2007
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    A very sad piece, beautifully penned. I think the flow is fine. Good luck in the contest

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