HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A ROBIN WEEP?
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The song said don't stop thinking about tomorrow,
tomorrow will be better than before; yesterday's
gone, yesterday's gone. If the singers only knew
that yesterday will never go away...
yesterday can never go away.
The song asked if you ever saw a robin weep when
leaves begin to die, and said that means he's lost
the will to live. I ask if you ever saw your friends
die and if you did, do the tears ever stop falling, do
you retain the will to live?
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
I remember a young Montagnard soldier and I
shooting small stones at passing ground leeches,
laughing happily together, enjoying our deep
friendship. Then, I remember later in the same day -
when he pushed me to the ground and took the bullet
meant for me.
Should the song say, I'm so lonesome I wanna die?
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©Copyright June 20, 2006 by Charles Schwiderski
The Weep For Yesterday Trilogy
Part 1: Have You Ever Seen a Robin Weep? by Charles Schwiderski
Part 2: When Robins Weep by Thurman P. Woodfork
Part 3: It Is Always Today by Colin F. Jones

Awarded June 23, 2006