This Poem was Submitted By: Robert L Tremblay On Date: 2003-02-13 18:38:44 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Last Conflict

Death rode the hillsides on his mighty steed                  With absent pathos his eternal creed, To search the ruins for remaining life, Not saddened by the final human strife. He galloped through the countryside forlorn, With mission's sense his armor to adorn, Undisturbed by the silence around him, Save for the sound of harps and angel's hymn. Nothing remained but buildings' charcoaled bones, Man's madness loosed on unprotected zones, When superpowers struggled to survive Each side's weaponry, with no one alive. Suddenly, Death could hear a muffled cry Of tiny infant who was left to die Beside his mother, who was silent now, And, Death, for one quick moment, wondered how. Death looked upon the bleeding infant small. With bulging eyes and frothing mouth as pall, And he wondered why infant suffered so While others died quickly so long ago. Death, unperturbed, briskly dismounted horse, Removed his steel dagger with no remorse, And plunged it through the dying infant's heart, Before remounting, weary, to depart.

Copyright © February 2003 Robert L Tremblay


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