Brit-Am Veteran Woes ……a Soliloquy From Af-Pak Poem by saadat tahir

Brit-Am Veteran Woes ……a Soliloquy From Af-Pak

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O man on the hill you sent us there
To a burnin hell for worse to fare

stingin sand and the blindin glare
in our face for early death to stare

lost an forgotten tribes with a snare
hummvies an gizmos didn't prepare

for lost friends an those who care
to sit on tonnage and deathly tare

bros and pals that covered my back
frozen for days, stored on a rack

I lost a limb an another an eye
Some were stung by a wicked fly

Natives saw us an tongued a spittle
their ire an angst, we knew but little

The barking sarg was such a creep
crackle an static wouldn't let me sleep

Someone's war was, for us to wage
to stand chins up and face the rage

endured for days the rancid stench
crooks and groups of ilk and hench

great the words for freeing a nation
truth trickled down in meager ration

Unfolding lies have tied my hands
My Youth's been lost to distant lands

Cryptic messages scribbled on packs
Lost in the mad rush to roll the sacks

An back'ome mowed my gal's look,
too long waited, another she'd took!

This messy ruin is of your make
Screwed up logic "for the counties sake"

Time's done a circle, around the stars
stripes are blurred the spin now jars

The dangling pride on a roof in Nam
The last post and the report is bam

Your dole an help can't lend me sate
Shuttling healthcare, to end my fate

(Islamabad)
(April 13,2009)

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Some lingo has been advantageously used to mirror the rambling thoughts in the wracked mind of a disenchanted pfc……

April brings to fore memories of the "operation frequent wind" evacuation of Saigon
Nam-http: //www.youtube.com/watch? v=mcQoQDkhbYw&feature=related
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Vidi Writes 07 June 2009

A code and an evacuation. An escape from the encroaching forces. Stuffed with much of the operational frames This poem brings a whole story of the war game. largest helicopter evacuation And Fall of Saigon Is remembered through these hefty lines. Thanks for this great write and remembrance.

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Cindy Kreiner Sera 25 April 2009

As Jim says, well executed indeed....war is inhumane, robs all people involved of life, and their daily lives with loved ones and leave the suffering homeless....your voice carries here...Cindy

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Jim Hogg 19 April 2009

A drastic change of tone here Saadat; well executed. You portray the folly of war with considerable success - the richness and freshness of the images gives your work much strength. jim

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