One Week to Go
"One Week"
One Week
Just one week
Seven days
times 24
equals 168 hours
168 hours times 60 equals
10080 seconds and
that is all the time
he had left
till he came home
till the children would have been smiling
and the mother
wrapped
in the warmth of
a living mans embrace
instead of locked
in the eternal grip
of a final kiss
of a corpse
drenched in death
and hardened blue blood
and stiff limbs
those he had left
after the IED decimated
his once cherished
form
and this
my civilian witness
this is the reality
that we
who still live
and still believe in
this life
must face
must glide forward, onward
each day with patience
and grace
in place of
casual existence
the reality of
our persistance
to live and to love
a soldier.
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