FLAGS

The rain water drenched us;

an ocean of death...

 

A net to catch dolphins

& sharks from shipwrecks...

 

The flags that were raised

were orange scraps of skin...

 

But we could feel nothing

though we were their kin...

 

We were their brothers

yet we weren't afraid...

 

For we held their warning

on that: their last morning...

 

They died not in vain

for their flags were raised.

 

Written By Jason Wright

FEBRUARY 24, 2006

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