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When all is said...

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When all is said …Who will lament the silence?After stirring speeches, passionate politics,futile threats of righteous indignations -When the winds blow, in endless darkness -(Down in the valley of the shadows) -After left confronts right confronts wrong,and the gung-ho heroes hid in concrete caves.After none remain to even throwsticks and stones, or rehearsed rhetoric -Who will lament the silence?Copyright © 1999 David Taub (Ukpoet@aol.com) Written October 27th, 2001 © on Oct 27 2001 12:04 AM PST   0 • 9

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"When all is said …Who will lament the silence?After stirring speeches, passionate politics,futile threats of righteous indignations -When the winds blow, in endless darkness -(Down in the valley of the shadows) -After left confronts right confronts wrong,and the gung-ho heroes hid in concrete caves.After none remain to even throwsticks and stones, or rehearsed rhetoric -Who will lament the silence?Copyright © 1999 David Taub (Ukpoet@aol.com)..."

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