It was on the airport Road,
a burning dash through
dust swirled by spinning wheels

Snatch Landrover bouncing over
jagged humps, mobile coffin
waiting to be filled –

Then the whooomp
of the roadside bomb,
wheels lifting clear,
helpless in black air.
Floor splitting,
no armour underneath
to hold back tomorrow.

Thin metal peeled back –
a careless twist of paper
discarded on the airport road.

Hearing broken, eyes blind,
bodies flying –

In this concussive maelstrom
we departed.

the curtain lifted, and here’s eternity
boys

our beginning and
our end.

On the airport road,
IED
Improvised explosive device.
IED
Introduction to eternity device
A burning dash through dust
Swirled by spinning wheels.