Short Enlistment Poems

The mountain calls for me
The Valleys in awe with me
What's wrong with me

The air and nature braces me
Cooling winds around me
What is wrong with me

Never Ending resistance
 Nature's Enlistment
Prevalence reality

11/19/19
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr  2019...

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The Enlistment
David J Walker

 As if a brave character in
A sad play he marched
In heavy boots to the old bus station
Feigning courage in the face of
Every uncertainty

Counting on the five fears
a soldier tries to hide
from anyone who asks why

His life is not his own
Maybe he'll come home
only if he’s lucky
and someone
else isn’t...

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It would have been his twenty-third
birthday next month on the sixteenth.
Today we received a letter
From the government informing
Us our son was killed while fighting
The enemy in Kandahar
Afghanistan two days ago.
I cannot help feeling guilty
for our dear sons untimely death.
I could have fought his enlistment
Instead I let him convince me
That it was the right thing to do.
If only I had been more firm
If….If…he’d be alive today....

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