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Intelligence & Authority
I have no right to say no, Make sure you are right to say go. So, apply your intelligence, So you can use your authority, To do what is right. Don’t lie about intelligence, So you can abuse your authority, To use your might.
The Note
Duty called today – So I’m sorry I won’t make it to dinner tonight. Kiss the kids goodnight for me and tell them I am sad that I can’t be there to tuck them in. I won’t be there for the parent’s night either. I hope it goes well. Send my apologies to the Browns but if...
Four Ten Thousandths of One Percent
I don’t want you to remember me every day of the year I don’t intend that your life is impacted I don’t hope you spend more time thinking of me then your loved ones I don’t crave a reminder on every street Please enjoy your freedom Discover new passions Laugh at...
He Turned Into a Monument
With sad eyes I gaze down upon my comrades. I see them everywhere. A hospital bed plays host to a friend in a coma, or worse awake, but immobile. Fixed to the bed like a monolith encased in its foundations. Still. Maybe they lie in the soil. Grave after grave. Line...
Two Minutes
The time it took me to bleed to death at Vimy. How long I had to hold my comrade while he died on Juno. The time for my compartment to fill with water as we sank in the Atlantic. How long my plane could glide before impact over Korea. Amputation time for my leg in...
Spring
A poem of spring we were asked to write But when I tried I became wound up tight. Does it mean green shoots on trees gently rippling on the breeze As I wonder , struggle and toil The mysteries of the helicoil does it mean some curly steel Round and round just like a...