” empirical flight “

have you not found the words to write

has your thoughts taken you to empirical flight

have you found none the more interesting views to sight

will there be visions of truth and love in your dreams tonight

thinking too hard can not take out with all of ones might

the essence and character of a man who is just right

from the US Marine 2010 @ 09:37:47

“ wounded warrior ”

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could not see me

not in the right away

am i dead ???

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what has skewed my heart

what has taken me all apart

what, damn it, what

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see my legs stretched out next to who

mangled and ripped to shreds by U know who

dried and shriveled and what to do

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my breast plate all across my gate

in the trouble of what others called fate

not my own but subjected to

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war has my helmut smashed to the top of my head

war has my brain, smashed to the top of my skull

war has never been known as this – in the unmasked

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finally truth starting to flow

from this and other in murdered souls

watch now all these ghosts to where they go

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in the hands of who they used to know

begging and pleading…