His Pain

He came back scarred inside his mind At the carnage he’d witnessed overseas As unseen sounds haunted him after dark And caused all the non-dark things to flee How long he wondered as the darkness crept in And those voices started their rituals once more The sounds of battle, of dying, then silence And that pacing across the hardwood floor He knew in his heart this couldn’t keep up Without his mind going completely insane But the VA had no answers for his nightly trauma And only pills were administered for his pain His wife couldn’t handle the man she knew not So alone he now wrestles those demons once more And yes once again when the silence gets broken The voices come alive like they always did before The county buried the old man just barely thirty In a plot in the back of cemetery row No words were spoken, no tears were shed Just another soldier who couldn’t let it go