Cold desert rain! (short story) (Part 4 of 4)

 

“War is Hell!”---“Heroes!...are eternal!
 
“Proxy”-war is the “elites’” sick-hobby---
concluded with signing an armistice and
a handshake absent any consequence…
discarding and forgetting the “proxy”
until they are needed to fight, again!
 
Heroes!
(Respectfully dedicated to S/Sgt/ Robert F. Holden Viet Nam-1968)
 
Too many brave names on a stone wall so black
Brave young soldiers who won’t ever come back
 
Sacrificed lives for faux-“ideals” construction
Death chiseled in granite by horror-destruction
 
Frigid icicle fingers grope beyond the lost-life
Piercing mothers and lovers and children with strife
 
A mistake we allowed this venomous deed dastardly
We pray haunts myriad evil souls of politicos bastardly
 
 Forgive us! Our heroes! The very people we Love!
Lord! Help us with healing through Thy power above
 
Innocent young souls under a long wall-of-black
Souls of lost children who can never come back
 
And, what of us now as we struggle anew?
Issues enormous strike terror right through
 
For answers we search but simply can’t see
The problem be us, our own worst enemy
 
Oh! Grunt us a life absent further sorrows
Peaceful rest like our fallen young warriors
 
Leave them alone, steal not innocent “youth”
Don’t teach them to lie but rather live Truth!
 
Beyond the self-centered wanton with greed
Mankind does hunger to satiate good need
 
Where are we now as onward we falter
Far from Redemption! No spiritual altar
 
High school dear friend ole “Bobby” sacrificed all
A brave innocent young Hero answered evil’s fall
 
Too many brave names on a stone wall so black
Brave young soldiers who can’t ever come back
 
Amen!
 
 
Damn! “elites!---To Hell with war!...Damn! evil!
 
Amen!

The end