Soldier's Safe Passage Poem by Tom Yarborough

Bloated decomposition floats in mucky spring
Fetor nauseates as enemy passes
Black pajamas adrenaline usually bring
Propels safe sail with binary gases

Ignored as a brother or only son
Identified only as Charlie
Schoolbook education replaced with a gun
Now carcass limbs floating and gnarly

Tagged for a count in brown murky wake
Mortal point for the resolute team
Another young child to exterminate
For moral's much greater scheme

Inebriation blurs opaque trance
Obscure hashish thoughts dimly pass
To blaring music the victors dance
Celebrate it's a lad not a lass