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The Slowest Parade
by: Nicole Bernadette

The slowest parade you've ever seen,
Wasting away over millions of days,
A soldier in a war where you were dying to be thin,
A heartwrenching war where you can never win.
Their weight of sorrows carried far and carried long,
Their lonely tears pattered in a melancholy song,
All come to live their dream,
And join the slowest parade they've ever seen.

©2001 Nicole Bernadette. Reprinted with Permission.

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