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A Soldier's Wife

A Poem from a Soldier's Wife to a Soldier for Memorial Day

By SM FitzgeraldPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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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.

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About the Creator

SM Fitzgerald

Poetry, novels, painting, sculpting, art is life.

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