Veteran's Day
i can only
go back
in time
in my
mind
but
to
be
five or fifty
five years
of age on
May fifth
at five
fifty
five
a.m.
age 5
at that
time of
day i'd be
off sleeping
and dreaming
of shooting my
stick guns while
playing being
a cowboy
fighting
indians
but if i
we're
fifty
five
i'd be
awake
maybe
sweating in
remembrance
of a day that was five
plus five subtracted from
today's date not knowing then
that in the eighth
month to come
which is five
plus three
on the
14th
four
plus
1
two
planes
would drop
the same bombs
on two different cities
killing many but ending
the 2nd world war for what
it
was
worth
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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