Just like every other day everyone leaves, as the last person leaves happy that they have returned home safely, she looks to the sky and screams, she screams until her lungs gave in dropping to her knees in devastation that he is never returning to her and their baby, she holds her baby tight to her chest as she cries. As she cries louder and louder, a crowd started to form around her, I couldn't stand to see this woman like this as I left my duties behind and start walking towards her, before I could even walk a couple of steps, a young, striking blue-eyed man in an army uniform comes running towards her looking frantically for the crying woman, tears are streaming down his face.
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Lady In Waiting (War Poem Short Story)
Tarihi KurguCasting my eyes upon a young brown haired girl, she reminded me of a young woman who returned every day to these exact docks, as she waited for her lover to return from the ridiculous phenomenon called war. In the bitter cold of winter, in the warmt...
