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What My Living Has Brought

(written by Carolyn Green)

I had this dream not long ago: I was in a concentration camp.  I was one of the prisoners in grey, with a gun in my back.  We were pushed and we trudged up a hill by the barrack and fence.  It was a fear-filled eyed woman who fell, right in my path.  She was pulled to her feet by a soldier, her face held me tight.  I thought: this was the moment we lived for, all of our lives, all of our lives.

It was only a dream in my mind, but it burned in my thought. 

In a similar dream I was found, held by a hostile state.  I was told to consent to the crowd, wear the banner they waved.  I was taken to a swamp by a young girl who had bought all their lies, she pulled me neck deep in the water, she threatened my life, she threatened my life.

If it's only a dream in my mind, why is it burned in my thoughts?  Will I know on the day that I die what my living has brought?  What my living has brought.  What has my living brought?

And in this underworld of reality, my choices get played like moves of a game.

What my living has brought, my living has brought.  What has my living brought?