This Poem was Submitted By: JAMES H SCARBROUGH On Date: 2001-10-15 23:06:49 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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INTESTINAL FORTITUDE

We approached the tiny village  our unit intended to clear. Screams of a little girl raced  toward us as we drew nearer. Horror on a little face, entrails  of her intestines hanging out. God a war is hateful, what in hell  is this ugliness all about? Our big-hearted point man  jumped up to go out to help her. "NO STAY BACK" the order  but his heart could not endure... He ran to help her anyway and  into her pocket she reached in. She exposed a smile and hand-gernade  with her teeth she pulled it's pin. Their blood, the bones and flesh  together splintered into space. It caught all of us off-guard  as terror splattered in our face. Her guts exploded on his heart  and mingled with smoke filled air. Among remains of two young teens  who died for their countries there. She probably was once innocent  with a father, a mother and life. He was too, for he was my friend  who never chose to leave his wife. I still puke my guts as I recall  the fortitude in her evil smile. A hateful war made her live, to fight,  to die, in warlike-ugly V.C. style.  

Copyright © October 2001 JAMES H SCARBROUGH


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