This Poem was Submitted By: JAMES H SCARBROUGH On Date: 2001-03-13 09:07:07 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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DREADED TUESDAY

My thought scramble like thunder,  In a background of flashing red. "It's a dreaded Tuesday morning,"  Is what my mother always said. "Time to take the garbage out,"  Dad'd add, "A task a son was bred." A job a nineteen year old hated,  Just the menial task I dread. I think of mom and dad back home,  And the girl I'd someday hope to wed. Another flash of lightning shakes me,  I scramble from my fox-hole bed. Every day now, is dreaded Tuesday,  I've prayed to God and even pled, To get me out of Southeast Asia,  In one piece or make sure I am dead. Another dreaded Tuesday morning,  In dawn's background of red. A band of enemies approaching.  Time to do, "A task a son was bred." My rifle to my shoulder, my finger  Squeezing the menial task I dread. "Time to take the garbage out."  Again, I survive a flash of red.  

Copyright © March 2001 JAMES H SCARBROUGH


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