{"id":794,"date":"2016-01-03T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=794"},"modified":"2016-01-03T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T05:58:00","slug":"sing-me-home-i-beg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2016\/01\/03\/sing-me-home-i-beg\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing Me Home I Beg"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s so wrong that I am here I was never meant to kill,<\/span><\/p>\n

Firing this heavy weapon made of steel has no appeal,<\/span><\/p>\n

My mind can’t always see why there’s times not to be best,<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I wish I hadn’t been so open in my draft board test,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I was too young when I left home and wish I’d never gone,<\/span><\/p>\n

The pull was too heavy and I left wondering if I was wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n

A pain too strong with doubt as to how she felt pushed me,<\/span><\/p>\n

Wandering came to be daily life I guess I was too blind to see,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My deferment had no value when that letter came in the mail,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s one of the few letters not a bill that came as far as I can tell,<\/span><\/p>\n

If I could run back home I would run for days until I’m there,<\/span><\/p>\n

Heard a song by Tom Jones coming home to his lady fair,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A stark reality of life woke me to realize I may go home that way,<\/span><\/p>\n

Walking beside my casket trying to help my girl along the way,<\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t want to go home this way please protect me from harm,<\/span><\/p>\n

My dreams since seventeen are to walk away with her on my arm,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It came to me just yesterday that my time home may be all I had,<\/span><\/p>\n

To die at twenty one because of war’s draft made me very sad,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve held her picture dear since I left home I’m on picture two,<\/span><\/p>\n

John Fogerty sings protests loud at the base yet I’m so very blue,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’ve wondered has anyone listened to the words he sings of them,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a double edged sword to listen to songs written by him,<\/span><\/p>\n

I love each song and line but they are written for the non-drafted,<\/span><\/p>\n

If only a song to love your drafted brother had been crafted,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sing me home I beg and let me drag Main to see her drive by,<\/span><\/p>\n

Last time I saw her our kiss goodbye made tears fall from my eye,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly goodbye is my final word but if reading my poem made her cry,<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I should have said “I love you” before I kissed her my final goodbye.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, for Patti.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s so wrong that I am here I was never meant to kill, Firing this heavy weapon made of steel has no appeal, My mind can’t always see why there’s times not to be best, Now I wish I hadn’t been so open in my draft board test,   I was too young when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}