A Memorial Day Poem "2007" To all the Vietnam Veterans of A-Company 70th Combat Engineers Rosalie Kissner |
"The Awakening" Spring flowers awake after a long winter's nap We are reborn and filled by the season's gap I look at my spouse with tears in his eyes For he has found some of his friends, comrades and guys. Hoping, searching for the last forty years, How many are left? are some of his fears. Will they remember bittersweet stories and him? And the times they took chances and went out on a limb? What took so long, you might ask, Finding some people is no easy task. But once awakened by the spart of "Hello" I served in A company, how did you know? Emails and phone calls gather memories of brotherhood Reminising when they returned home, some misunderstood. Going their own ways, trying to catch up on life, And the years go by, each having their own strife. Watching them awake after forty or so years, Many miles between them, so many tears. Like the flowers bloom in Spring after the winter's snow, They awake, arrange to meet and then off they go. They hold a common bond, no one can take away Some didn't make it, that the price they had to pay. How exciting to watch them share stories, pictures and slides And watching a tear form in their masculine eyes. What a feeling to experience such sorrows, such joys Knowing that forty years ago, they were all just boys. Forty years for some have taken their toll, Big bellies, gray hair, some warm, some with no soul. But no matter the changes, they all become one With the same in common, together, yet alone. But every day there are blessings just waiting to be found God works in mysterious ways to turn our lives around. It sometimes seems that the simplest things can give us a lift, A found soldier, a comrade-in-arms, is the nicest kind of gift. With all the changes in their lives, I hope they find peace, It may have taken forty years, but God's wonders never cease. Love, Robert (Red) and Rosalie Kissner |
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