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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · War · #1137764
A little girl learns of her father's death.
My voice has suddenly gone—
Too parched to beat
 
Out the war drum words,
“Your daddy is dead.”
 
A gun to his head
In the desert heat.
 
My own voice has been
Washed with sand.
 
But in his daughter’s eyes
I see his death,
 
His last breath.
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