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8-2-13
MY LITTLE BROTHER BOARDED A PLANE HEADED FOR IRAQ,
TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM , AND I CANT TELL YOU WHEN IT HAPPENED, BECAUSE IT HAPPENED WAY TO FAST, BUT HE LEFT AND NEVER CAME BACK.
HE MAY NOT HAVE DIED, BUT HE DID NOT COME BACK THE SAME,
AND WE HAVE THIS STUPID WAR TO BLAME.
HE CAME BACK WITH FLASH BACKS, NIGHTMARES, AND PAIN,
THE HELL HE WENT THROUGH DAMN NEAR DROVE HIM INSANE.
OH HOW I MISS THE MAN YOU WAS BEFORE,
THE LITTLE BROTHER WE SENT TO WAR.
I REMEMBER THE LITTLE BOY WHO WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO ANY ONE,
WHO NEEDED IT MORE THAN YOU,
THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED ABOUT YOU.
THE LITTLE BOY WHO COULD DO ANYTHING HE SET HIS MIND TO,
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TO PROUD OF YOU.
WHEN I LEFT HOME, THE WHOLE FLIGHT I CRIED,
IT KILLED ME TO LEAVE YOUR SIDE.
BUT I HAD TO SPEAD MY WINGS AND LEARN TO FLY MAKE A NEW START,
BUT YOU HAVE TO KNOW LEAVING YOU BROKE MY HEART.
ALL I EVER WANTED WAS THE BEST FOR YOU,
TRUTH BE KNOWN I STILL DO.
WHEN YOU HURT ME I ACT LIKE I DON'T CARE AS I SLOWLY DIE INSIDE,
I WOUN'T LET YOU SEE MY PAIN, BECAUSE I HAVE TO MUCH PRIDE.
I LOVE YOU MICHEAL DANNIE JOSHUA JOHN,
PLEASE COME BACK TO US, YOU HAVE BEEN GONE TO LONG.
many things in life can do
many things in life can do this to someone...war, i have to say, appears to do it the most unconsciously, and best.
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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "
War's Inheritance
There is only so much
the brain and emotions
can absorb or feel
before the mind
and feeling anything
shuts down.
.
Recall the running
screamin child in the
Viet Nam photo
when the world was
burning. Life
was the nightmare
.
It may take years
to become whole again
after seeing mass
graves, being the reason
for them. Some wounds
heal in time, some
never will.
.
allets
08-02-13