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angrychair

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Fri Jan 20, 2017, 02:36 PM Jan 2017

Duty Calls Us

Last edited Fri Jan 20, 2017, 03:06 PM - Edit history (1)

While the honored leaves our house
They sit idle in the noonday Sun
others warn to run away
The ignorant stand
The fearful run
Duty calls
Us

Watching what was made come undone
“Triumph” shouts the careless fool
As the masses sit and drool
Idle seats and idle hands
Care so little for it
Duty calls
Us

Talking of being the greatest again
As they laugh and look ahead
Fascist gnash their teeth
Ball their fists to fight
A story built on lies
Duty calls
Us

As they judge them sitting stony
Sick and poor on fallow fields
Staggered and distraught
Forgetting their fortune
As the rain comes
Duty calls
Us

Paladins will rise flags held high
Women and men of might
From the ashes we rise
People of every color
Of every stripe
Duty calls
Us

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Duty Calls Us (Original Post) angrychair Jan 2017 OP
We all have work to do. . . .n/t annabanana Jan 2017 #1
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