Veterans Have Served Their Time in Hell

November 8, 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 how vets’ anguish never wholly leaves them.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Veterans have served their time in hell,

Emerging on the sunny side of pain,

Taking with them always shards of night.

Even in the midst of their delight,

Rich in all that love and luck can gain,

Armed memories rise that know their weakness well.

Now death joins the damned ones in their cell

'Ere we can remove them from the slain,

Snuffing out their suffering with our light.

Days and years diminish not the blight,

As only those who've been there can explain,

Yet walking by the side of those who fell.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/vetera.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

November 7: Victories Require Validation

November 8: Veterans Have Served Their Time in Hell