Short Stateside Poems

She'd waited so long
  Her love remained strong

Her man sent overseas
  She stateside, ill-at-ease

The lives of so many claimed
  or wounded or maimed

Now just three days to go
  Her nerves on edge and it showed

Two nights without sleep
  Tissue's tears in a heap

Then came the long-awaited call ~
  He'd been the last man to fall...

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