Bso Small The Distance Poem by Barry A. Lanier

So small is the distance,
Between politics and prose.
Just as the short distance,
Between the grave and the rose.

Let not my words provoke,
But clear thoughts, resolve and calm.
For I left all my outrage,
In a distant field in Vietnam.

I just gave my neighbor,
My only Silver Star.
For her firstborn and courageous,
Lost in a land, way afar.

I gave her my Purple Heart,
To gently lady on his grave.
So little could I share,
For the life he just gave.

While there were no words,
To justify her great loss.
I left her my heart,
Long ago, I thought it was lost.

So there is not so much distance,
Between politics and prose.
Just as, so small the distance,
Between the grave and the rose.