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Homeless Veterans
Submitted by reconsldr74d on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 10:29pm.
A soldier never rushes through the rain
Or speaks of pain
Especially his own
Every emotion is out on loan
And must be paid back
To Iraq
Or Afghanistan or Cuba
Whichever they left behind
And it haunts them everyday
As they beg for dimes
Begging and swaggering on the street
Scraping up together change to eat
And to drink
So they no longer have to think
Because there VA check still hasnt come in
Again
And they think that there forgotten
And they might be right
After all they can no longer fight
And they sleep in that dark alley
Watching for cops
And trying to make the nightmares stop
Every day they live with this pain
Yet still walk calmly through the rain
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Sadly, your poem still
Sadly, your poem still resonates that sad plight for our veterans. It's been a year and nothing much has changed. Even basic health care benefits are being denied to some of them. We can only hope and wait for better things to come this year.