Saturday, February 11, 2012

Broken Men

We are Broken Men

Our heads are full of

Red glaring rockets

Shell shattered buddies

Blood gulped by the thirsty ground

Screaming wounded

The crying dying frightened friends

Faces twisted in ending agony

Their pocketed dog tags

clicking against extra ammo

muzzle flashes

then the telescopic sight

of an enemy head exploding

the lingering smell of flesh

eaten in ovens

donkey carts piled high with shrunken bodies

bayoneted babies

tearful mothers with shrunken breast

inside us forever

we do not share.

We are the Broken Men

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