The price
\nby cricketjeff on December 15, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nUnblinking eyes stared out beneath that heavy wrinkled brow,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No hint of raw compassion in their gaze.
\nThose eyes had seen the best and worst that people will allow
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And now they watch the passing of the days.
\nIt seemed a thousand years ago that he had been to war
\nAnd seen the deeds unblinking eyes admire or just abhor.<\/p>\n
Another life, another world, another mind was lost
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 And nothing then had seemed too much to pay
\nBut these two eyes’ unblinking stare betrays the awful cost;
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 They see the dreadful deeds on every day.
\nHe lost his life but did not die, he stares without a blink.
\nLocked deep inside a mind that now has just one thought to think.<\/p>\n
At first they tried to find a way to bring him back to life
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 He fought for them and so they fought for him.
\nThe doctors and his family and finally his wife,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gave up the fight, the prospects were too grim.
\nHe never showed emotion as they tried and then they failed.
\nThe part of him that knew these things stayed very tightly jailed.<\/p>\n
At last, last night, without a blink the final light was dimmed
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No one was there to hear his final breath.
\nThe last remaining vestiges have now been neatly trimmed
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The years without a life have met their death.
\nThe best and worst that can be seen will now be seen no more;
\nWho wants to say that here’s a price that they would pay for war.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nIn extended ballad meter sixains rhymed ababcc in each stanza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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