tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post7783447776788409643..comments2024-03-28T09:13:04.373-04:00Comments on KIKO'S HOUSE: Iraq: The Then, The Now & The AfterwardShaun Mullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14964214385216513188noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19217611.post-586567722328728322007-12-05T12:06:00.000-05:002007-12-05T12:06:00.000-05:00THE RETURN OF AN IMAGEThe little boy upon the road...THE RETURN OF AN IMAGE<BR/><BR/>The little boy upon the road,<BR/>His head bashed in the cobble,<BR/>Remains an image, and a goad<BR/>That it is worth the trouble<BR/><BR/>To strive against all forms of war--<BR/>My brethren did excite them<BR/>To rapturous folly, while the whore<BR/>May not so well requite them.<BR/><BR/>So she has urged them on to fight:<BR/>Today, as calcified<BR/>The soul is witness, but new light<BR/>Remembers what has died.<BR/><BR/>Now, nevermore will I forget<BR/>That sight that I have seen,<BR/>Macabre, red, and oozing yet<BR/>The bursting brains between.<BR/><BR/>It was engaged a kind of lark<BR/>As adventitious sold us,<BR/>But when the night has gotten dark<BR/>My memories but hold thus.<BR/><BR/>Sweet precious joy, the tarnished dream<BR/>Revokes, and I this load<BR/>Carry, as traipsing by my team<BR/>The dead child on the road.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com