This Poem was Submitted By: carl a wertman On Date: 2001-01-11 00:46:10 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Soldier's Soliloquy

It does not matter if I am forgotten or my deeds lost in the first frost of autumn. I am but one stalk in a field of blossoms The memories of men, like tongues too often used are short of thought and fickle of direction, and applause is but a tiny expulsion of air doomed at conception to be wafed away when next the eyes of history blink True glory lies not in the remembrance but in the having done; a virtue bequeathed by Heaven alone with no deed too lonely and record made of all I am but one stalk in a field of blossoms. What matters my fate if my breath has helped  the ground remain firm and the sky clear? If my flower has opened wide with sweet scent and borne fruit? True glory lies not in fragile human fame bestowed but in duty acepted and duty fulfilled, however quietly.

Copyright © January 2001 carl a wertman


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