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A SLOW WALK IN A COLD RAIN
It was like nothing you had gone through before
Nothing to prepare you for what you would find
A year spent in a place like no other
A time firmly locked in your mind
From the fears and the horrors you saw
The sorrow slowly seeped into you
Like a chill settling into your bones
The experience totally new
Never knowing quite why things happened
Each day brought new meaning and strife
And when it was passed and you came back to the world
You tried to make sense of your life
But the chill is still there in your soul
Inside you still battle the storm
The thoughts and the images recalled
That part of you can never be warm
The memories are buried within you
And no matter how hard you try
You know you can never forget them
And that is probably why
You know that to keep your mind safe
To keep from going completely insane
You pull those memories out and confront them
And take that slow walk in the cold rain.
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Copyright © 2003 Stan Hutchison
MSG, US Army (ret)
RVN 1968-1969
Poet's Bio:
Assigned HQ, MACV Office of the AG, Admin Machine Branch, Personnel Accounting
Section. MOS 74C30. SSG E-6, From Nov, 1968 to Sept, 1969
Retired MSG E-8 in 1986. Now live in Deer Park, WA. Presently involved in
veteran's political issues locally. Also produce my own CD recordings of my
Vietnam & Patriotic poems.
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