Long Tet Poems
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Viet Nam has left many with mental pictures
Images, that some, just couldn't forget.
And when it was over and troops were home
Many vanished, living alone with their regret.
Some found themselves living on the streets
Disrespected and blamed for an unjust war.
Spat upon by some, and psychologically ill
Now doubting what they had fought for.
My brother was a soldier mentally tough
Decorated and wounded during his 23 years.
Was it the pressure of being a civilian
That caused family to shed those tears?
Joe's name isn't written on the traveling wall
Nor does a granite headstone mark his spot.
Yet I count Joe D. among the living dead
Just another memory that time can't blot.
My brother has been missing since 1984
Why
do I
always sigh
and start to cry
when romance comes to mind? Just for a while,
I savor past love's sweetness as I smile.
Then come the tears
and the fears
that sear
hope.
I
do cope
but being
alone, seeing
others in love reminds me--time's fleeing.
July, 2016, placed second in Eve Roper's Triple Tetractys Contest
Date: September 29, 2017
Contest: Standard 340 Placed second
Sponsor Brian Strand
April 25, 2019, entered in Charles Messina's Tetractys This Contest
Placed first