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My life wire is swaying from side to side
Trying to keep myself above water
At times I am flying with the kite
- Only to drown again later

Sitting somewhere between the times
In the now and yesteryear
Life has not been easy minded on committed crimes
Since coming back from Middle East I have stayed clear

No more noises of the dead and decay
Just in my head like a parasite they stay

Days are done and gone of unbelievable inhumanity
but now existing I am merely for my own sanity

Soldiering on day in and day out
Trying to makes sense what life now is all about

Life goes on behind the daily mask
I portrait with laughter to the task

They told me C.P.T.S.D will be your friend second to none
Always be with you and never gone

Mirror, mirror on the wall
When you ready next again to fall?

On the ocean the preditor waits
Her iron skined hull
Waiting for her pray
Eight or more fish waiting for her tubes

Her torpedoos active and waiting
Waiting for the order from the obersumfureher capitain
Her killing fish waiting to kill

Tankers
Destroyers sailing passenger ships her orders she will obey
To sink many ships today
From the nazi leader she will obey

In herduty for the fatherland
The u boats will obey

I feel incomplete with you not around
I miss you all the time
I remember the times we had
Subway, talking about everything

I hear a song
It reminds me of you
The pain I feel
That you're not around

I know you're in Heaven
Smiling down
Remembering
Waiting

I try not to think
About the way I feel
But sometimes it's hard
Because you're not around

But I know I'll be alright
For when I die of old age
We'll be reunited
Up in Heaven

I dedicate this poem to my grandfather who I miss very much

As night descends, casting darkness
all is silent and so very still
waiting, listening, and breathless

Into the dark of nights coldness
do you feel it, that stone cold chill
as night descends, casting darkness

The cold seeping chilling denseness
it seems to invade , to instill
waiting, listening, and breathless

Something stirring in the blackness
the noises now loud and so shrill
as night descends, casting darkness

Death shows his face full of graveness
in the dark stands waiting to kill
waiting, listening and breathless

Now life seeps away, its painless
just a gasp then it flees noiseless
as night descends, casting darkness
waiting, listening and breathless

A repressed memory makes itself known
I had buried it deep within because in pain it did grow
Nurtured by misery and strengthened with my tears
Of the loss of the one that I loved dear
My mended heart is starting to unravel
It's like being hit in the face with a fist full of gravel
Like a sickness in my stomach that tears my soul
Ripping apart everything I had left to hold
I should have been there when you needed me most
But now I'm haunted by your restless ghost
That night you left with a smile on your face
But quickly that memory would be replaced
I heard the sirens, then the screams of our friends
I did not know that this night your life would come to an end
What if I had done this, what if I had done that
So many times I've asked this but there's no going back
It should've been me, I wish I could take your place
Instead of having to remember that last smile upon your face

I walk amongst the twilight shadows
I want to cry, but I cannot
I want to howl and let my emotions loose
But they are tightly encapsulated within me

How do you say goodbye to your father
When he does not acknowledge death
When he believes that he will live
But sadly he will not

I turn back to walk into the hospital
The long corridor and up the stairs
To the room where nurses are buzzing around
The final farewell and the long vigil

It was but a moment
It had to be...
I saw you and you saw me... I tried to speak
No words came,
Then you were gone
But yet etched on my brain.

Don't know what it was all about,
The fight, the quarrel,
I think I heard the shout...
But didn't even turn around
As I let you walk out.

I felt you leave, rather than see
And when the cold started seeping through
Me
I snuggled more into my coat of pride
Bitter words and turmoil inside

Then a bell from far away
Brought me
Back to today
I let it ring ding a ling
Didn't care for anything.

Later that night
Flashing lights, like a magnet drew me from bed
And with words that sounded cold
They said to me You're dead.

I couldn't scream...
I couldn't speak
The coat of pride that felt like fleece
Now feels like a threadbare sheet.

It is now four years since that night
But now it's time to say goodbye...
Step away from the past, face the future
With victory's torch burning bright I say to you
my love...
Goodbye.

I'm no one special according to me.
There's a hopeless gap in this esteem.

Fluttering and flitting about
I'll say my lines, while you figure out-

What could come next?

Like a blind prophet somewhere
In the middle of a sand storm.

I could say that I don't care
But we both know how this heart's worn.

So what is there left to say
When you're reading my future?

Rain drops end with today,
Death's voice is loud- so we mute her.

Sitting in a city station.
Awaiting death.
Death of a loved one,

One,
So very close to me.

Departure,
viewed in many forms.
Crowds ticket the office staff window.

A return ticket in (my) pocket.

In her hand,

A one way ticket to the grave.

17/06/13.

If i should die
will you mourn for me?
If i should act death
will you be sympathetic?

In the realm of eternal sleep
pain is removed,
tears to vapor,
and the body to clay.

Deep darkness has no sound,
no movement,
no remorse,
and light is swallowed whole.
Should I care?