A Soldier's Wife
A Poem from a Soldier's Wife to a Soldier for Memorial Day
It’s not that I don’t love you
And it’s not that I don’t care
It’s that sometimes I have to turn away
From the pain pooling in your stare.
It’s not that I cannot understand
Not that I can’t empathize
Because I have lost those I love too
Pain and loss can be so amplified.
I feel you toss and turn at night
I hear you cry out in your dreams
I feel your legs try to run
And all I want is to set you free.
It’s like I can hear the gunfire
Like I can see your friends fall
It’s like your dreams fill my heart
I feel helpless to help at all.
I see photographs of you in the desert
Cammo and boots and guns
And I wonder what you were truly feeling
Behind the smile and pretense of fun.
I see you go someplace else in my mind
You tell me your stories and I try to understand
But there’s no way I can feel what you felt
Fighting there in the desert sands.
My soldier, my hero, my husband, my love
I want to say so many things that are true
On a day of remembering my words trip and fall
Except that I love and am here always for you.
We will remember together
All those you knew that fell
We will hug and kiss and cry
And together beat back the gates of hell.
I’ll stand by your side
And fight the battle at home
I’ll be your fiercest warrior
You’ll never be alone.
On this Memorial Day
We will remember also what is good
We will remember the good times
And the day that we fell in love.
We will remember all that we have done
To make this life of ours complete
And we will try our best to beat the sadness
You can forever lean on me.
So wrap your arms around me
I am so grateful to have you in my life
And come what may we will make it
My love, my flame, a husband, a wife.
About the Creator
SM Fitzgerald
Poetry, novels, painting, sculpting, art is life.
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