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Survivors of the Killing Fields

Matthew Horstkotter

In the streets the bodies are beaten
Scared, bloodied, and broken
No care for the dead
Drowned in pools of their own blood
Trampled by the fleeing
Praying to make it home to their warm beds
To wake up and call it a nightmare
Repeating its self on the morning news
Thankful to be alive to have a cup of joe
Watching the repeating nightmare
Knowing in their hearts
What it was like to be there
Innocents begging for their lives
Sounds the news does not show
Thanking god for their life
One last swig of joe
Packing their bags of to work they go
Never to repeat what they saw
Never to repeat what they heard
Never to say that they were there
Out there in the killing fields

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