The Purple Hearted
He may have joined the Marines...
because of a sense of patriotism and duty.
Running deep in the fabric of familial DNA...
Maybe it was the only means of escape
from generational poverty -drugs and gangs
...none but the newly purple-hearted can really say.
but when I look at the awkward air
where there once was a limb:
I can say for certain that he earned his freedom
more than most of us did.
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