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Rated: E · Poetry · Tribute · #842292
as long as there is one standing
Old soldiers never die

Old soldiers never die
they just slip away,
into the dusty pages
of our yesterday.
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There among the many
ever more to be,
alive within the heart
of all that would be free.
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Never more to question
what is right or wrong,
forever in the lyrics
of the hero's song.
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In the heart of others
they are kept alive,
by the endless spirit
of all who still survive.
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Old soldiers never die
they just slip away,
into the dusty pages
of another day.
© Copyright 2004 James A. Osteen Jr. (poetman at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
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