Because You Care Enough To Go

Safe On The Twenty-Third Floor

Because you care enough to walk away,
To greet an arid, alien terrain
Where ever-open wounds bleed ceaseless pain,
Within my gilded tower I dare stay.

Your gentle hands proffered with friendship’s clasp
Will bear the arms that set caged spirits free;
Your voice that sings awake the dawn with glee
But whisper terse commands with measured gasp.

Because you leave behind all that you know
One fateful autumn day will not reprise;
But in its stead I watch the starlit skies
And see heroic echoes in their glow.

Because you care enough to walk away,
Within my gilded tower I dare stay.

© 2007 Kate Sender
http://www.kate2world.wordpress.com

Kate - Writing & Reading
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P.S. – This is written for a friend who shipped out overseas with his National Guard unit in January 2008. Please send a prayer and/or your warm thoughts for him and the other valiant men and women who put their lives in harm’s way that you and I are safe in our homes and places of work. Thank you.

Update ~ Autumn, 2009 ~ Home at last, but not for long ~ honor the guardsmen and women; and the soldiers, sailors, marines who daily put themselves in harm's way that we be safe - and free.

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