Rowing for Shore With Sinking Ships All Around
If only I were the astronaut I dreamt of as a boy.
I have loved you my whole life…I have waited my whole life for this. I fought a war for this OR I would wear these boots all over again…
I want to come home. I want to die.
There was no crowd or streamers. No bands playing.
It’s now time to walk this road ahead of me.
I dream of my two brothers.
You are here with me.
…he peers out of the shadows of the nighttime highway.
I will be your superhero. Like you are mine.
I watched the sun go down over you last night.
I can feel it...eating at my bones.
The nightmares happen quite often now.
Bite past the screaming tongue.
I am battling a lot more than insurgents.
For your Safety
Is post traumatic stress disorder kicking in?
I can’t shake the screams out of my head.
The world is a bad place. I am a bit fearful of our future.
My thoughts are as random as the grains of sand.
She said to stay alive, I promised.
I have a whole life of things to say to you…
I feel like I have fallen off the edge of a map.
Remember when we were just kids? Transmitting radio messages through walkie-talkies?
I fought, mostly boredom and lonesomeness.
Dear moms don’t be sad. Cause your little boy, he’ll be back.
Shit is pushing south, past here. Abductions, firefights, rockets.
I thought I saw you there…through the flashes of the firefight.
GASP. I can’t breathe with these words in my mouth.