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Freedom in Death
He stood alone at the last gate
Where he and his wife had had to wait
for the plane they could not miss
Before she flew home they parted with a kiss
He held her long out of a great fear
His wife of course was very dear
to his heart
Men who wished to tear their country apart
had crashed a plane like the one she boarded
The husband his whole life had hoarded
his love
This woman
His hope
His life
When disaster struck, the unimaginable fear,
took
his love
his wife
his dear
The lone man’s infinite pain and strife
ripped out all the love in his life
from his heart
To war the broken man went
with thoughts that were bent
on the revenge of his heart
The man with nothing to loose has the least to fear
every last thing this man held dear
burned in the crashed plane
His wife
His unborn son
His hopes and dreams all in one
burned in the crashed plane
He prayed to God to let him die in that foreign land
hoped that this was what He had planned
Many of the evil men he killed
But still his broken heart was not filled
with the love and hope he lost
that burned in the crashed plane
Finally the day came for which he prayed
the metal and gunfire for hours sprayed
until one round found its target
the soldier’s broken and empty heart
The man’s lips turned from grimace to smile
His wife and child he would see in a while
So as he lay there on the ground
His final hope he had found
And as he lay dying with his last breath
The healed man cried “Freedom in Death”
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