Facts of the Vietnam War-We Learned From That? Or Did We? Who Will You VOTE For?

Facts of the Vietnam War?
Lots of people died
Vietnam War pictures
prove that.
History
defines us
we learn
regain our strength
pull up our bootstraps
and then ask
for more...
Do we?

If somebody asked you to defend them
would you?
And if you would
just how far would that line go?

Line in the sand
is there one?
Does it stretch across the desert
or end before your feet
take
one single step
forward?

So you are thinking it all over
are you?
Dare I say
I hope so?
What depths does life depends on
what line is worth defending?

How many lines have been obscured
before you even look out your window
have your morning coffee
read your newspaper
listen to the news
on TV?

How many tokens does it take?
How many bumper stickers
how many walls
how many monuments
how many gravestones
uniforms
folded flags
passed on
to the next grieving family?

Who do we allow
to send a son to war
and now a daughter too?
How many orphans will we allow
a decision maker
make?

Who
do we allow
to set that contract
telling a mother
a father
a husband
a wife
a sister
a brother
and the most pitiful of all
a child
of a human race
to race on.

Who?
do you
VOTE for
Who?
Do you
allow to set the stakes
and for what victory?

If somebody asked you to defend them
would you?
And if you would
just how far would that line go?

Thinking it over
decided on that line?
Set with your thinking
are you?
Or maybe
just maybe
does it all need to be better
defined?

Facts of the Vietnam War?
Lots of people died
Vietnam War pictures
prove that.
History
defines us
we learn
regain our strength
pull up our bootstraps
and then ask
for more...
Do we?

by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
copyright 2008

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Image is of my painting:
"Denny" ~detail
30x40x2 oil on canvas

ABOUT Kathy Ostman-Magnusen

I paint and sculpt female fantasy art and map fairy tale adventures. I dream of beautiful women on canvas and art of exotic women.

I have illustrated for Hay House Inc.,"Meditations For Women Who Do Too Much" CARDS, taken from Anne Wilson Schaef's book. I also illustrated for Neil Davidson, who was considered for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, and several other publications. My paintings are collected worldwide.

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