Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Left at the Wall – v4

Pieces, shards only
broken fragments
of your story, heartache;
their stories, unfinished
of their lives, cut short
gone to Vietnam
without coming home

so many young men
not here with us
so many women alone
comrades with guilt,
nightmares of that place
so far away, distant
from everything we know

so alien, foreign,
the jungle, Vietnam
things we bring
to you, to them
left at the Wall,
not where they lay
praying for wholeness
one day, for them


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edited November 11, 2014
Left at the Wall – v4

Veteran’s Day
edited May 27, 2014
Left at the Wall – v3
Edited May 26, 2014
Left at the Wall – v2
Memorial Day
August 5, 2006 18:05
Left at the Wall
&
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
&
All of my Veteran’s Day poems
&
All of my Memorial Day poems





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