D-Day: France, June 6th, 1944

( dedicated to the countless souls who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war against Nazism and Fascism )

photograph from google

photograph from google

D-Day: France, June 6th, 1944.

1.

They were thrashed by the merciless sea.

They were drenched by the savage waters, their uniforms clinging to their shivering bodies.

They were mowed down as they approached the beaches of death.

The beaches of unspeakable horrors.

Gold.

Omaha.

Juno.

Sword.

Utah.

They were brothers and fathers and sons and friends and cousins and nephews and grandchildren and boys and men.

2.

They surged on, facing the metallic death of Nazism and Fascism,

they surged on and were cut into pieces of bloodied flesh and shattered bone,

yet they surged on.

They surged on so that we may live.

They surged on so that we may breathe the air of peace.

They surged on and on,

and on.

3.

Today their bones lie buried, along rows of crosses.

Today they lie beneath this earth.

4.

Today they live.

Tomorrow they shall live.

They who sacrificed their lives for humanity.

They shall live on eternally,

within us all!

photograph from google

( dedicated to the countless souls who made the ultimate sacrifice in the war against Nazism and Fascism )

photograph from google

seeking solace

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seeking solace …

Bracing howling winds of fate, of love, 

enveloped by darkening clouded skies above,

what becomes of the heart that feels too much,

but desolate emptiness.

Merely traversing the daily grind,

fragile are the bonds, the ties that bind,

still hopeful, still searching,

for the solace that seems so hard to find.