I hate the fourth of July
Don't get me wrong
I love what stands for
It's the fireworks and bonfires
I have a problem with
When you have seen
Your friends and comrades
Shot down
Killed
Destroyed
When you have
Crawled through trenches
With gunfire and bombs
Going off overhead
When you have seen
Your fellow soldiers
Cut down and riddled with bullets or
Blown to peices by
Land minds
It does something to you
It messes with your emotions
Your state of mind
Is never the same again
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Author:
Tony36 (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I have talked with many soldiers about their PTSD. This is the first out of four poems to come from those conversations
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Thanks for sharing TONY ~ for obvious reasons we don't celebrate the 4th of JULY ~ but we do have bonfire night (5 November) which is the same fireworkwise. Also we kill and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes. UK Veterans have told me that the bangs and the flashes and the burning bring back all the horrors of War. I do empathise ~ thanks for caring and sharing. Check my PANCAKE POEM it will make you smile ~ BRIAN
Thank you, your Pancake poem made me hungry. It was a great write.
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