shea stagg Biography

He’d lived his whole life not knowing nor caring of the plight of others.
Blind to the suffering and the hurt!
The old and the weak, starving, living on handouts or anything else they could find
He never saw the helpless children, disfigured beggars living in the dirt.
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Running in circles screaming and laughing, touching and reeling, escaping!
A burst of excitement, adrenalin courses through our veins heightening
Our excitement!
Our breath rises in vapour like a steam engine of old or a boiling kettle ready for a warming brew.
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Poetry breaks down all barriers, and in breaking barriers then understanding
Prevails,
Understanding is the foundations of Compassion.
Compassion is the start of love,
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Life filled the air fervent and fair like the flutter of wings from a thousand butterflies
Joyous moments shared and now lost.
Sacred promises made and then broken in one instance shattered never to return
Distrust spurns and prevails on harrowed wings.
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The sergeant major confidently said
“The enemy shall suffer many dead! ”
To Basra and Afghanistan we had to go
And end up getting shot and fall like snow.
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