Veiled in Glory, One Looks Back and Grieves

November 6, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is war, in honor of Veterans Day, which is celebrated on November 11.

Today’s poem is a Veterans Day poem about the difficulty of putting war behind one.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Veiled in glory, one looks back and grieves.

Each day of war is like a year of peace.

The nightmare, long since over, never leaves,

Endures because one won’t give up its lease.

Remembering’s an act of loyalty,

As though one could so keep the dead alive.

Nor does what’s real seem like reality,

Since that is not what will at length survive.

Dreams of death and terror do, in time,

Adjust to one’s routine as duties chime.

Yet nothing will one’s lust for life revive.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/veiled.html. For more Veterans Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/veteransdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Veterans Day

November 6: Veiled in Glory, One Looks Back and Grieves