30 May 2011
by Deborah Horton
in May 2011
Tags: freedom, Memorial Day, remembrance, sacrifice, soildiers
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Guarding the walls of your every freedom they stand
across lines and borders into many a distant land
from each advance to destroy your liberty they perservere
both far away and those who are right here
Standing on the walls protecting all you hold dear
the lines of freedom both far and near
through all assaults they protect and defend
never breaking but sometimes they bend
The walls they guard surround you with peace
each one of you from the powerful to the very least
they make no distinction they protect one and all
always they stand and sometimes they fall
The walls they stand on are covered by sacrifices in the past
the blood they shed isn’t the first it won’t be the last
every moment they hold fast both the living and the dead
honor them now those who fight and those who bled
The walls remain standing for you at each sun rise
shining across rows where those who sacrificed lie
watching as ever those brave those true
ever guarding the walls of freedom for me and for you
13 Mar 2011
by Deborah Horton
in March 2011
Tags: freedom, love, rebirth, regret, renewed
To be free of the past is a step at a time
there’s no determining reason or rhyme
different for all harder for some
the journey to what it is we are to become
Leaving behind those who were lies and pain
regaining what it feels like to be once again sane
time passes slowly healing in moments and what is true
turning once again making brand new
Those who have hurt you those who have lied
free now to turn and leave them aside
the love of someone who means it replacing the past
free in mind free in spirit freedom has come at last
The journey while painful teaching so much more
opening the soul to what is now in store
all of the past removed as if it were dead
looking forward now to only what is ahead
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