No Cure for Shell Shock

Loathe to try and give background on poetry given that everyone will get from it what they’ll get and any message I have should be contained in the verse. But, as you lose a lot of context online when you don’t (necessarily) know the author and can’t hear a reading I will say that this isn’t written for the love of Jesus. I’m Agnostic at best and generally a Godless Atheist. This is an anti-war piece. Or at least a piece against the reactions that some have had to veterans. And now I’ll shut up…

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They tell skeletons to walk

corpses to dance

remains to re-form

Let Jesus guide you,

you are the resurrection and the light

and to fail

to fall back into your grave

the weight of dirt cracking your bones

and cold earth claiming your breath

is to commit the ultimate sin

We, the living, may scatter in cemetaries

but only you, the dead, can read the names

And only if you refuse to rise

to be Jesus

do you deny the redemption we demand

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