Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Surprising God (a poem in respect for the vets who struggle with taking their own lives, data tells us 20-22 will surprise God today )


Surprising God

How does one surprise God?
I have heard the door or gate is not locked, it is always open

Every day I think of a vet I knew,
he told me about the river boat he was on,
the murky river water, many small boats alongside,
action all around
He was a sailor on a ship
What the hell was he doing on a river boat, he often asked, even now
Can’t remember the name of the river,
but it was Nam…

You come home, home from war…
you are different now
No one seems to know that,
“but glad your back bro” they say

Yes, you are home, but then there is the addiction,
not of killing but of forgetting

the time comes to report,
remembering my service,
Out in the woods, away from it all
There is that standing at attention, hair and beard trimmed,
muster for the last time…

How does one surprise God?
I have heard the door or gate is not locked, it is always open


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