Letter to a Soldier

 

She should have written

long ago - she didn’t 

Now she writes to a dead man

“better late than never”

Dear Dad

I didn’t know you were

a soldier,

In a  war, yes, but

not the reality of it.

You never talked to me

Not only about your

war, but nothing else either

You were a stranger, the patriarch, 

No familiarity 

Rules, rules, rules,

Never spoken, how did I know

what to do, not to do,

I just knew

I’ve learned you were

damaged

Buried alive in the trenches, 

not once, twice,

You survived, either with

help or determination,

I don’t know

The damage I saw but

never understood

The weeping, the nightmares,

The weeping you could hide,

but not the night terrors,

not the hospital committals,

not the estrangement

How could I have known you?

What could I have done?

Tell me if you will

I want to understand 

how all of your withholding

benefitted any one but you

I’m sorry too

Yours truly

one daughter

Ellecee 

Day 22 - NaPoWriMo 2024
Prompt : Letter to a Soldier
From: TP_Poetry

Hibernate

 

What can I do?

What I can’t do is

elementary

FrustrationI am not a politician or

a person of power

A delegated one who

changes circumstances 

Is that what 

delegates do?

I can’t or I don’t want 

to understand

Ebrahim Raisi

Isaac Herzog

Or any other combatants

willing to lay waste

I can’t change the

deep despondency 

proliferating among us

like another plague

And so on

and so on

What can “I” do?

Hibernate

Ellecee

Day 15 - NaPoWriMo 2024
Prompt “what can I do?”
from TP_Poetry

Let Go

 “MY IMMORTAL,” WRITTEN BY BEN MOODY.

Let go

I, too, am tired of being here

You’re holding way past time for letting go

You don’t look forward but only behind

Lost tears, lost fears, all gone,

No hand to hold

Wake up you ARE alone

I want to fly, have my release

from all past pain and sacrifice 

I’ve earned my peace

and so have you

Let go the pain, let go your fears

let go regret, life is yours to take

You must understand it’s 

you who’s holding on

You are the only one in my way

Your way

Give up, give in, sweep everything

clean, start anew,

I want to fly, I want to soar,

I want to hear the music, see

the light, if such exist

I may never know

 while tethered here 

I’ll over rule your life

and you are stealing my awakening

Now you are enlightened,

Now you know

So let me go

Ellecee

Day 28 - NaPoWriMo 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Musical Inspirations

Today: My Immortal - written by Ben Moody

Simple

 

“Would that it were so simple”

from: Hail Caesar! (2016)

“Come away with me”

He implored

“Come now, don’t wait

another day.

What holds you here

are burdens not

your own, causing sorrow,

loss of your life

Come away with me.

We will go where our only

companions will be

soft winds, sun, and ocean waves,

or if you will, let it be the

mountains, rising above

all agonies. 

In craggy cabins we will

shelter against any storm

Don’t turn away, look

into my eyes and see

my need for you

close to me

Our precious days lived lightly

 with passions held at bay

Our nights entwined in

lovers’ heat, that only

you and I can make”

My response is tempered 

by my strings, my sorrow,

my fate

“What dreams you dream 

on our account, what fantasies

you weave so beautifully.

But I am bound and you, you

are free, free”

“Come away with me,

let go the bonds, let be,

just come,

how much more simple 

could it be?”

Ellecee

Day 10 - NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from Hail Caesar! (2016)

 

Sweet Madness

A life continues

released from consequences 

Sorrow is sweet madness

Ellecee

Day 20 - NaPoWriMo - 2022

An April Haiku