Rubicon The Poetry of War Quotes

“Too My son asked me if he could be like me and I told him yes, yes of course When he was older and bigger he would be just like me… but just right then he was too young He started to play with his toys, the small ones in the chest from when he was a smaller boy I told him he was too old He wanted to go fishing with me and asked one time and I told him it was too hot The next time he asked it was too cold, and each time anyway I was too tired When he asked me for the first time to go hiking with me I told him no - he was too small He did not ask again I stopped hugging him as I used to because he got too big He wanted to go off to college and away from us but I told him it was too far He had the push to go to war and I told him war is too dangerous Far too dangerous He went anyway, a man Now, though Now I am ready for him Though Now it is Too late”
― Stanton S. Coerr, Rubicon The Poetry of War

“Nothing is soft here, nothing is kind Nothing engages the heart or the mind It is down to one place, first finger, right hand”
― Stanton S. Coerr, Rubicon The Poetry of War