I am nearing the end of my life cycle <br />each day the Rigor Mortis seeps in deeper <br />from my loss of spine and conviction to my principles.... <br />I have become a coward...afraid to move <br />and am therefore paralyzed by my lack of will <br />I was once a soldier...an enemy of evil <br />but that was long ago.... <br />before being corrupted by socialist and vague civil liberties <br />I became bigoted against my forefathers.... <br />Men and women who had bravely fought the evils of tyrants <br />and under God founded the United States Of America <br />Alas...the horror of war...combined with the shame of being powerful... <br />is killing me <br /> <br />May God have mercy on my soul.... <br /> <br /> <br />(2007)<br /><br />Ted Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-didn-t-live-for-over-two-hundred-years-to-die-in-your-arms/
