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Monday, October 21, 2019

Whatever Happened to the Tank Commander Who Disobeyed Orders? - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Whatever Happened to the Tank Commander Who Disobeyed Orders?

A brave little man with a shopping bag
Defiantly stood before an army tank
A foul machine designed to grind free men
Into bloody scraps to be hosed away

Two unknown men - it was not the tank that stopped
It was the tank commander who stopped the tank
All that is left is old videotape:
Two bullets made all problems disappear

A brave little man with a shopping bag
Another brave man with a battle tank:

They stopped -
And, yes, someday China will be free