Very Soon I'll Hear the Victims' Screams

November 7, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Veterans Day, which is celebrated on November 11^th.

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A Veteran’s Day poem about a vet’s recurrent nightmares:

Very soon I'll hear the victims' screams,

Even in the midst of my content,

The end not quite enough to quell the means,

Each nightmare not exactly what I meant.

Recruited in a time of peace, I went

Abroad to serve more adolescent dreams,

Not unaware, of course, I might be sent

Someday to where the widow wails and keens.

Dumb ignorance! For now I must repent

Aberrations no regret redeems,

Yet hounding me like dogs on mayhem bent.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Veterans Day

11/5: Thank You’s Howl like Wind Across the Dead

11/6: Vast Fields of Crosses, All the Same

11/7: Very Soon I’ll Hear the Victims’ Screams