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Tuesday (Free verse) by sk8rs_rule_all
Seeing someone you thought was
so storng, crying, you wonder
how you will handle it. You
thought nothing could ever
make them cry. A woman who was
battered as a child and tortured
as a wife, to see such a Woman
emerge from that with her
head held high, and a skin
so thick that politicians would
be jealous. To see tears run
down, her face full of sorrow,
her eyes red and hollow. She was
crying about someone she loved.
Someone she took care of.
That someone was my uncle. He was
old, but old enough to live.
He was 70 and she was 71. He was
her Brother. He was a Vietnam Veteran,
he saw war, he saw innocent people
get killed! He saw babies being
used as target practice. He saw all
of that, and he took it to his grave.
The secrets he kept and the
memories we lost. He once said
that everything happened to him on
Tuesday, Well....he died on
Tuesday...And God only knows
what else happened to him on....
Tuesady.
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