“Deployment”

Reverberating footsteps sync with the crow-calls of an officer. Silence matches the stillness of my mind. I am fighting for a lifetime and the nation I left behind. Ahead I see something different, a welcomed change of tune. Peace had come and entered my unsuspecting...

“The War Widow; Peace’s Bride”

He’s in Iraq again, she would say to all that asked they’d whoop in signs of patriotism yet mock behind her back The wedding ring upon her finger is tainted by well-intentioned blood he split she said she’d stay there forever but she never realized it’d be a long wait...

“Let History Not Repeat Itself”

The future promises of many things—almost everything but none of that means a thing not when our future is stuck in the past a future stuck in a past tormented by war How can we existed while blood escapes, from our soldier’s faces? while death tolls raise at an...

“Recalcitrant”

They can’t make us fight for something we can’t believe Screw this war of selfish intentions, of bitterness, and fear’s drowning kiss. Forget the country’s demoralization. The lack of courage. The fact that the army called me to save the nation again. Look at the...

“Hiroshima”

when they look back in the rearview mirror, it is not the devastation they see. not the pale, ashen faces or the shattered helmets that tickle the minds to provoke disbelief. innocent civilians and honest bystanders are strewn in streets— tainted decorations that...