They Came Home From War
24 April, 2011
Author: Elizabeth Squires
they came home from war
all shattered and worn
the events in the theatre of fighting
had constituted them torn
these horrors
remain indented in their thoughts
their dead comrades
awash in blood guts and gore
the smell of ammo
firing off
the ducking for cover
from the very close shot
the thick brush jungle
where booby traps were secreted
the indiscriminate
bombs dropping in
from several hundred feet
and they came home from war
and they came home
altered forever
and these recollections
are ones that they'll not treasure
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| Stephen Harper (65.92.45.64) -- Monday, April 25 2011, 01:46 am war is hell and you have captured it perfectly in this sober/no-nosense account of the horrors which often follow it with his harrowing poetic postscipt! |
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