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Dónal Campbell
4 April 1997



The Trapped

The silence brings on shivers
It's intensity brings on fear
Silence is the enemy of mine
Or is it my savior?

I wait like death
I know they will come
I hear only silence
From which way might they come?

Sweat beads across my eyebrows
Hands drenched from sweat
Panic ebbs through my mind
Is it I who traps them?
Or is it I trapped by them?

The silence is broken
Footsteps crash through the trees
They penetrate my silence
I take their lives

The roar of gunfire
The smell of death
The screams of the dying
My silence returns

The silence brings on shivers
With it fear and remorse
The silence brings back reality
For I know we are borne in noise
But die in silence
 


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