A Mother’s Fears

Richard Johnson

Guns ablaze!
In the darkness. Another soldier falls.
I pray it wasn’t you, my son,
on his way to the halls of Valhalla.

The tears I cry, out of fear out of love,
will keep it forever clean
in a place where no one ever dies
but heroes are forever free.


Issues |Civil Rights|Death

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