{"id":25,"date":"2006-04-17T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T04:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.traprockpeace.org\/traprock_blog\/index.php\/2006\/04\/17\/youth-a-poem-by-avery-friend\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:18:54","slug":"youth-a-poem-by-avery-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/2006\/04\/17\/youth-a-poem-by-avery-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth &#8211; a poem by Avery Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written on Good Friday, April 14, 2006<\/p>\n<p> Youth<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nseven is too young to hear<br \/>\nthat daddy won&#8217;t come home<br \/>\nyears go by but still can&#8217;t fill<br \/>\nthe time you spent alone<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nfourteen is too young to care<br \/>\nabout saving innocent lives<br \/>\nto campaign hard to stop a war<br \/>\nbased on naught but lies<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\ntwenty is too young to fight<br \/>\na battle that&#8217;s not ours<br \/>\nwhile government officials hide<br \/>\nlike god-forsaken cowards<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nfifty is too young to bear<br \/>\nthe weight of wooden crosses<br \/>\nfor those collapsed along the road<br \/>\nunder their heavy losses<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\none hundred is too young to wake<br \/>\nfrom nightmares of the past<br \/>\nno matter how many years go by<br \/>\nthese scars will always last<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\none thousand lifetimes is too few<br \/>\nto understand the pain<br \/>\na mother knows when she finds out<br \/>\nher child&#8217;s died in vain<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI am too young to write these words<br \/>\nfor all which we aspire<br \/>\nbut my my pen never have rest<br \/>\n&#8217;till peace replaces fire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written on Good Friday, April 14, 2006 Youth \u00a0 \u00a0 seven is too young to hear that daddy won&#8217;t come home years go by but still can&#8217;t fill the time you spent alone \u00a0 fourteen is too young to care about saving innocent lives to campaign hard to stop a war based on naught but&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/2006\/04\/17\/youth-a-poem-by-avery-friend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youth &#8211; a poem by Avery Friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grassrootspeace.org\/traprock_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}