by Boxer Wyze

Created on: April 01, 2009

"Images of Heroes"
Bits of color and light and shape

Are captured through my camera lens

Fear and pain in an instant gain

The status of art;

Frozen in digital formats,

Printed and emailed,

Wondered at and archived

And forgotten

By living men.

But these images of heroes

Will for history remain

As testament and tribute

To what has happened here in this place.

To show but not explain.

This place of echoing gunfire and shuddering explosions

And the stench of death and the almost dead

And sadly, where poetry seems out of place,

Yet is the only thing that can make sense of it

And the only thing that comes to my mind

Along with these images of heroes...

The staring eyes and these words in verse and rhyme

Transcend this small, overwhelming moment in time

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