A Warm Cup of War
As the suicide bomber detonates himself at a roadside check
I wait for my coffee machine's light to turn green and beep
Carnage unfolds after all bits of shrapnel finish their courses
I add my spoonful of local honey to suppress my allergies
One of homeopathic medicine's simplest of analogies
Gunnery Sargent Patton's mind lays out in the desert's hot sun
I watch the milk swirl as it is added in contrast to coffee black
Corpsman Green drags himself to the moans of Private Daily
I blow the steam away as it rises from my most favored mug
The warmth is as savored as the aroma, as my cold hands hug
Private Daily's leg was removed when the Humvee separated
I have woken up an hour late and will be reprimanded for it
Green's tourniquet above Daily's bloody nub does not hold
My boss is younger than I am and was hired by his cousin
Indignation's towards him have now exceed multiple dozen
Daily dies looking into the eyes of Green who gets sniped
I watch out the window as a light snow falls to the ground
Green's head hits sand and lands on a chunk of Patton's brain
Inclement weather is the beast of burden that haunts commuting
My Hummer H2 idles in traffic as it is perpetually polluting
Copyright © Plant A Tree Poetry | Year Posted 2017
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