{"id":1111,"date":"2017-01-07T23:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2017-01-07T23:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T05:59:34","slug":"laced-with-teardrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2017\/01\/07\/laced-with-teardrops\/","title":{"rendered":"Laced With Teardrops"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a dream laced with teardrops I was again taken from you, <\/span><\/p>\n

My heart cried for you with a loneliness I once before knew, <\/span><\/p>\n

From this vessel of heartbreak I watched you fade from view, <\/span><\/p>\n

I reached out for you wishing their was something I could do, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Countrymen and citizens chose to send aged warriors to war again, <\/span><\/p>\n

No life is wasted they said by sending old men that fought back then, <\/span><\/p>\n

And again I fear, I am called upon to carry out mankind’s greatest sin,<\/span><\/p>\n

The able bodied men with illness were the first selected of we men, <\/span><\/p>\n

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We were sad, we were old, worn through by the travesty of a past war, <\/span><\/p>\n

Every burden I’d forgotten through the years returned in a downpour, <\/span><\/p>\n

Into the fray I went once more clinging to an aged photo of you I wore, <\/span><\/p>\n

Separation teardrops have yet to cease tho’ it’s been a week or more, <\/span><\/p>\n

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“They were baby killers” the leaders said of we men drafted in war past, <\/span><\/p>\n

Too tough to die of napalm or agent orange we warriors of old are recast,<\/span><\/p>\n

Forty six years ago I thought I’d left it behind, how could this be forecast, <\/span><\/p>\n

Every lonely moment away from you comes flowing back incredibly fast, <\/span><\/p>\n

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As tears rush down my face and vertigo gives gravity an assist I’m down, <\/span><\/p>\n

With each man still in shock they barely notice the old man on the ground, <\/span><\/p>\n

As I crawl through thorns Benadryl slows the world from spinning around, <\/span><\/p>\n

I pull your photo from my uniform and through you my courage is found, \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I am chosen by the commander of long ago but he is anguished now, <\/span><\/p>\n

To fulfill a death assignment I must accomplish in triumph somehow, <\/span><\/p>\n

Praying the bullets are no longer true as I must return to keep my vow, <\/span><\/p>\n

Although I hate snow and cold I wish I was walking in it with you now, <\/span><\/p>\n

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You must be so afraid now to have me away from you for so long, <\/span><\/p>\n

But as I promised to you I will find a way to continue and be strong,<\/span><\/p>\n

My mind is spinning as I depart my body and I wonder what is wrong, <\/span><\/p>\n

I have left my body five times before but I…..I feel as if I don’t belong, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Confusion has filled my mind as below I see events that can’t be real, <\/span><\/p>\n

War continues around the scene below yet in my mind it seems unreal,<\/span><\/p>\n

My body is absent the scene below perhaps it’s a dream of low appeal, <\/span><\/p>\n

Have I died and broken my vow to return to you?\u00a0 This must be unreal, <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’m lost in a zone unknown to the living unless having been here before, <\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly I feel a sensation of shaking as I start to float once more, <\/span><\/p>\n

War has disappeared from my reality as our vessel is washed ashore, <\/span><\/p>\n

Still I float above when I feel a flood of desperation for the one I adore, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Prayers cross my lips and I cry for our Lord to save my wretched soul, <\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow my prayer has been answered and I leave my warrior role, <\/span><\/p>\n

I open my eyes to find you as I pray for more time for what war stole, <\/span><\/p>\n

You whisper “it’s but a dream”, it was more my angel, I’m again whole.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love you baby, by Pat for Patti<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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