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I'm often amazed at how a prompt for a contest can take me in many different directions. The prompt for this poem was a corpse breaking out of a morgue. I started with that image and soon realized it took me to my life in the military (Air Force), and those who've died. I wondered if the person had died long after they had served and the physicians in the morgue didn't know what it meant to serve in the military. Sometimes I feel like the people around me are like that. So, this poem came about. Dead to Rights © By:Elfin Dragon; aka Lisa, originally written Oct 2017, edited January 2021 (83 words, 16 lines) Gone to shadowy places A box without a tomb Sliding on steel plates A life whispered in a room No wish to carve out sounds A silent place away from you The cacophony of life pounds And there’s no place for youth For now there is just this box A steel cage of ice Those outside wear frocks Never knowing sacrifice But a soldier never rests When a Flag does not fly Freedom cries within the chest And the soldier meets the sky ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ![Merit Badge in Special Appreciation
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