Diggers Lament

 

                                    Diggers Lament

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Soldiers age, memories never die,

flashbacks, nightmares, often cry,

hearts wracked, eluded mind,

souls wrecked, abhorrent kind.

 

Marched forth against odds unveiled,

behalf of power, egos, where others failed,

loved one’s at home, neglected too long,

expected by society to do no wrong.

 

Arriving back from death, stench, smell,

broken spirit, under traumatic spell,

locked eyes, heart pumping, fearful state,

her smile aglow, resolved love would escalate.

 

His pain disappeared, she has been truly pure,

daily, tortured mentally, compelled to endure.

 

Alan Pinkus                                                           alpinkuspoetry.blogspot.com