Monday, May 26, 2014

Left at the Wall – v2

Pieces, shards
broken fragments
of your story
their stories
of their lives
without you

so many young men
so many women alone
comrades with guilt,
nightmares of that place
so far away
from all we know

so alien
in the jungle
in Vietnam
things we bring
to you, to them
left at the Wall
not where they lay


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Edited May 26, 2014
Left at the Wall – v2
Memorial Day
August 5, 2006 18:05
Left at the Wall
&
All of my Veteran’s Day poems
&
All of my Memorial Day poems
& earlier poem:
November 11, 2010
“In the Rain, in that Place”
Veteran’s Day 2010
and remembering being
at the Vietnam Memorial
during the 10th anniversary
Veteran’s Day 1992

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