the day I went numbA Poem by Baby Ricochet
Not a day of my life goes by
When I don't remember him That big toothed smile when he won a hand Pulling the pot in saying "Come to daddy baby" I remember the cigarette dangling from his mouth Like it was glued to his lower lip The stupid s**t he'd say His blue collar sense of humor how he slept on his right side snoring and wheezing How upset he got Over tuition for his kids In private schools How worried he'd get about his wife and his in laws How sharp eyed he was on patrol He could spot the tiniest details A kid with a remote control An old woman with a loaf of bread a shifty eyed young man A dead dog in an unnatural position Wires in the wrong place People hiding talking on cell phones dirt that had been moved around He was cunning like that I remember the day we Loaded him on the medevac side of his face ripped open How much he bled How horrible his face looked how pale and cold he was how distant his eyes looked how I felt when I heard he died I was heart broken like I'd never known I was angry like I'd never felt I was terrified like I'd never been and I was guilty I was there with him I could have done something If I'd been facing the right way If I'd not been so preoccupied with not getting hit If I'd been more daring I could have been the one who died on the medevac and went home in the flag draped coffin with the hero's funeral on the local news instead of him We had a eulogy for him and others we had lost in those horrible months the sergeant major, the chaplain the lieutenant the CO and even the division commander all made speeches I didn't hear a goddamn thing That was the day my soul went numb That was the day I stopped feeling anything I went home with that day lodged in my brain My wife divorced me within the year I'm still not really back from that day I don't know if I ever will make it back © 2013 Baby RicochetFeatured Review
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Added on January 18, 2013Last Updated on January 18, 2013 AuthorBaby RicochetTampa, FLAboutI write just for the hell of it A way to spend some time Blurting out in cyber space Whatever's on my mind Maybe funny maybe tragic Emotional and raw Politi.. more..Writing
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