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Coward Come Back

Posted by Sambow from Cardiff - Published on 15/04/2010 at 14:57
5 comments » - Tagged as Creative Writing

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Look at you now, you pathetic disgrace,
go home, you’re unwanted, you’re through.
Look in the mirror, at your resented face,
there’s nothing left, nothing for you.

You’ve abandoned your family; friends and your men,
you ran like a coward, ran far away.
Screaming for help again and again,
we’d surely comply if you learnt to stay.

There are some who are put through their paces,
savaged, bruised and ripped to a shred.
I’ve forgotten their names but remember their faces,
the fit and the fighting, the hungry, the dead.

Do you remember the first time you fought?
You wouldn’t, couldn’t say no to a friend,
everyone was an x, no room for a nought.
But that was then and now it’s the end.

I shan’t call you a failure from here on out,
because it won’t change your actions, won’t change your mind.
It might make you scream, cry, blubber, shout.
But you’ll always ignore me, you’ll always be blind.

You’ve been swallowed undoubtedly by a wave of emotion,
you won’t let yourself follow one path.
You hid behind this mass wall of devotion,
now please hide those tears, I dare you to laugh.

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emb789

Commented 25 months ago - 15th April 2010 - 15:37pm

Mulan - I'll make a man out of you;
"So pack up, go home, you're through"

Sam - Coward Come Back;
"go home, youâ€™re unwanted, youâ€™re through."

Hmm....
Epic poem though :D I hate cowards sometimes, but then I'm a coward sometimes so then I don't mind.