Changing of Years
CHANGING OF YEARS
The darkness overwhelms
sitting on an old com tower
well into the Plain of Reeds
watching for enemy movement
Using bunkers of a firebase
long deserted and long rotted
two bunkers remain intact
The ARVN are very frightened
their bunker re-enforced
We three not paying attention
our bunker is the old TOC
holes show partial damage
openings are our escape route
A canal is just below me
having a deep and fast current
yet moving with the ocean tides
even this close to Cambodia
The last second of this year
the night lights up with flares
a thin horizon in the distance
colour of base camps reflected
from Tay Ninh around to My Tho
A near perfect half circle projected
light from far away soldiers
they paint a glimpse of civilisation
an impossible distance from us
the world feels light years away
I notice the darkness around us
we are outside the circle of light
outside every thing we know
Our location an envelope of space
infinitely stretching beyond hope
The flares now lost in a new year
darkness now melded together.
our darkness is so much deeper
Our universe of this nothingness
drawing those very dark thoughts
the World is gone and home gone
So hard to breathe this nothingness
I feel darkness penetrate my soul
inevitably the dark will overwhelm
will hold me regardless of new light
the darkness held forever in my soul
Copyright © Jw Nugent | Year Posted 2018
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