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Matt Hein / Poetry / Pondering / | |
| Words to ponder Words, pondering... Written 09-27-04 By M. Aaron Hein. Banter from the outside, thoughts amongst the storm of tenuous assurance in a truly uncertain situation. This poem was written to reflect upon the thoughts of a soldier in a hopeless, remote conflict. The low mist hangs amongst the air amongst distant memories inscribed into a crackled and frozen letter tacked to my diary I write of conflicts far away one which has left me remote, uncertain, a conscript in foreign environs, frozen and drifting, the torrential rains and winds carving further anxiety into my situation, showering hail like bullets as it pounds the makeshift roof, each break sending a scurry of thoughts through my mind, I kneel in wait, and with another surveyance close my eyes, take a breath and wish to leave such a place for a conflict so senseless, to be driven into the most remote and primitive of lands tethered with circuits and boards of all kinds with the reservation of fighting the ‘conflict’ whatever it is but no sense of certainty, no sense of readiness just tenuous, fabricated assurance of a calm amongst the ambient storm one which never seems to cease nonetheless break like the fragility of a feather torn amongst the currents of the wind and the frazzled receptions which crackle and burst, rendered unaudible amongst the howling winds, which pound and pelt at my visor it is in times like these some call upon a certain book but pages are only pages, words only words dignity is another thing entirely to know of a truth without false reservations to know that there may be no end to a tense situation that one may save the self but shan’t wait to be saved that, in some cases fate lies in the hands of the many, at the disposal of the few the fortunate, remote and distanced leaders fin... |
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