Tribute to the Fallen
Author's Note: This poem is dedicated to the fallen, to those who will fall, and to those fallen who have risen for us. Oh, and I also did this for an English assignment. I got and A+!!! Yeah me!!!! Lol.
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White markers surround me;
names and symbols written on every slab.
Though the brave had
overcome most but
were defeated in the uncontrolled powers of death.
Our heroes had marched into
enemy lines;
some came back home,
while others were honored in
caskets covered with Lady Liberty.
21 gaunts are forever heard in this
eerie silence.
A weeping spirit is buried into a plot of
cool soil.
our fallen lifted and raised us
so we could have
what we have.
Yet our greediness and our
selfishness control our minds,
which some detest the fallen's
cause.
Why do we not support them?
Why do we not cheer at their
Silent homecoming?
Dead or alive?
They died for our rights,
so let us fall,
for their uprising.