C O M B A T
	the Literary Expression of Battlefield Touchstones ™
	ISSN 1542-1546 Volume 01 Number 02 Spring ©Apr 2003

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False Security

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Those tender voices
Silenced by terror
Echo in rage,
Fragments of fear
Caught in their throat.

Loved ones left behind
Fade in false security,
Impaired by staged frames.
In a blink, streets empty.
Someone has turned out the lights.

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by Robert J. Savino
... who is a native Long Island poet, widely published in the small press market, from The Long Island Quarterly to Haight Asbury Literary Journal.

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