The Eclectic Pen - if there's a heaven, i'll bet Gunner's there

By: Len S. (lens) - Armuchee, GA  
Date Submitted: 9/5/2009
Last Updated: 9/5/2009
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Words: 319
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you came right out and told everyone you weren't happy and that made everyone smile plucked before your time, to preserve the existing everyone hoped you'd understand what a sight we must've been, all blue and hidden from you everyone wanted to be there maybe that's why you chose to come early and avoid everyone's inability to be an adult around you but even bravery can fall short when you're that tiny everyone knows the outside world is tough but to skip her loving arms out of necessity made everyone hold their breath twice the ocean in both lungs everyone hoped you'd swim a tiny hole in the place of love everyone hoped you'd mend guardians in white tried to soothe you with plastic hands everyone hoped they would succeed but you only did half your time inside and everyone knows that's not enough so you were given a tent to wait until nine everyone loaned you their breath to be dispensed by a cold machine that everyone seemed to have faith in vigilant mama in her chair by the tent everyone knew she wanted inside since you couldn't come out to play everyone helped mama cry the line of attackers never slowed everyone wanted to help just give us each one of your problems and everyone would pull through but where oceans had departed, invaders could reach and everyone knew you were much too tired to keep making stands on pinky-sized legs but everyone hoped, perhaps selfishly, that you'd try and try you sure did, a soldier like your mom and dad taken from your tent in a foreign land when the guardians' guardians said "This is the end." given a few minutes to live, you were given the unknown the only one who shared your every minute took you in her arms and waited while trying to impart a lifetime's love that maybe you could take with you thirty minutes out was a lifetime for you but you looked in mama's eyes and made the most of it and when the end finally came, you just closed your's and mama didn't have to be brave anymore On this vast world's other side, everyone's Gunner died.

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