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My Country's Son (J​.​D. Flowers)

from Red Silhouettes by Matthew Morgan

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No hope, no pulse for the morning,
no life in their eyes.
The silence clings to the fallen.
No words can describe.

I guess I know what you're thinking,
it's not quite right
to grab the goods and the spirit
right from a dying man's side.

You would not last one second
to see what I've seen.
The sky lit up with a million
angry ghosts with lead machines.

Say goodbye to your only love,
a kiss for the newborn child.
And take your final stand
as a red silhouette on this hallowed ground.

It's alright.
It's OK if you don't ever hear
a single word I say.

I don't mind
It don't matter 'cause we're
living fast and running out of time.

We live
to be floating in the water,
but the waves are building up.

Someday
we will all go under
one way or another.

And now that engine runs
with the song of salvation sung.
Taking me back to the place I love
to the shoulders of peace I run.

I don't pretend to understand
what's wrong or right.
I serve my general and my land
for I am my country's son.

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from Red Silhouettes, released February 15, 2011

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