Been Missing You All

Being in the military is difficult, with being away from my children and wife, for weeks and sometime months away, and in the future when I become eligible to get deployed to fight, this is how I feel

Heart laden with sadness this accursed deprivation

Tears are flooding, scorching, oppressive

distance, time, being away, isolation

It's dark, lonely, immensely destructive

So close yet so far, almost touchable 

Breathing becomes impossible

Weight of it, unimaginable 

Fear, loss, love intolerable 

Wish for home and heart

Wish for completion of soul

Wish to not be apart

Wish for escape from hellish hole

There must be a way to be with all three

Son, Daughter, Wife. Home, heart, lover

Shattering, all that is left, debris

A need for the halves that are the better

A man must never cry

But alone he will lament

Difficult to believe

That love, is everlasting

Just the thought, can comfort, can fortify

To get back up, to be content

To see, to touch, to smell no longer to aggrieve

A devotion unwavering

Been missing you all

Been missing you all 

Author's Note

I thank you for reading, and hope it is relatable.