Flashbacks

Flashbacks

Edgy, he leaves early to avoid traffic
Snipers lurk behind buildings and billboards
Diesel fumes trigger nightmarish flashbacks
Fling him back into the horror of his acts

Snipers lurk behind buildings and billboards
Hears the dying woman’s last bloody breath
Flings him back into the horror of his acts
Medicates his tears on the busy freeway

Hears the dying woman’s last bloody breath
Rigid beside her child’s charred corpse
Medicates his tears on the busy freeway
“I should have freaking died over there,” he sobs

Rigid beside her child’s charred corpse
Images of his daughters flood the mind
“I should have freaking died over there”, he sobs
Intractable pain stiffens his soldier’s body

Images of his daughters flood the mind
Diesel fumes trigger nightmarish flashbacks
Intractable pain stiffens his soldier’s body
Edgy, he leaves early to avoid traffic

...Kbris