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Rated: E · Poetry · Military · #1827255
In memory of all who have served and given their lives for this nation. (Form: Sedoka)
The Greatest Gift


I give you this gift –
asking only a flag-draped
resting place and your prayers.

Into your strong hands
I place faith in the future
of a free and just nation.


Notes:
In loving memory of all who have served and given their lives for this nation.

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Form: Sedoka ~ The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta, is a single poem and may address the same subject from differing perspectives.


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