Showing posts with label Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Show all posts

Monday, November 11, 2024

soldier gripping the wheel of a 1972 mustang

  by jeanne rené


he spread a small blue tarp over the front seat
with yet another, he cocooned in fatal finale
once and for all, the civil gentle boy
gentle man
considerate of the unknown passer-by
who would trip upon “read me”

i do not know
once and for all
lingering with the tide
if he devoured the salty balm
of moment and infinity
wheezing through flared nostrils
pulling the inhale
pushing the exhale

i do not know
if he paused to listen
to the gulls' rapture
or let the wind intrude upon his meditation

and I do not know
once and for all
if there existed an infinitesimal dot of discernment
between the seduction of the trigger
and the beyond-regret impact

it does not matter
because
we could not gauge his pain
could not penetrate his sorrow
could not measure his torment

we could not know a soldier

copyright jeannerené 2013
~for G. ...
forever in our hearts