Archive for February 15th, 2010
Seeking Forgiveness
Posted by Rob Kistner | Filed under Free Verse, Poetry, dark, horror, prayer, tragedy, wisdom
…this is a poem about the horror and ethical dilemma that is war, and the devastating impact it has on many soldiers…
Seeking Forgiveness
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my eyes
crisp red from the scalding sun
from devastation’s fires
from cruel vision of relentless horror
scorched by vicious exposure of sentenced gaze
take refuge in this heavy late evening dew
thick with munitions soot
settling like a shroud
lubricious
opaque
obscuring
I [...]
