Warmemory
What if we remember
What if we go back
What if we can't clear
Our minds
What if it hurts too much
Only the troubled souls
Can hear screaming in their heads
Helicopters thrashing the air
Flattening grass
Flashing lights
Blades like crazy
Whirling knives
What if we can't forget
What if we just
Can't stand the torment
What if we lose our minds
Millions of plastic toys
Raining from the sky
Amputating tiny feet
What if that child was mine
What if we just can't determine
Nightmares from real life
What if revisiting feels
Like we never left the place
What if we carry it with us
Wherever........
Till we're dead
Willy Bach (c) 1991
Footnote: CRAS (Citizen Reality Avoidance Syndrome), it turns out, is much more widespread than VSCRAS (Veterans Stressed by Citizen Reality Avoidance Syndrome), and much more deadly, to other people’s children.
Bill Distler served in Vietnam, he is a member of VFP Chapter 111, Bellingham
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