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Watch the Watchers Watch
Eyes darting into the dark corners of the room, avoiding mine, even though I look right at you, I see the pain that won’t leave, the reason that has gone astray the fear that took up residence in your soul. … Continue reading
Middle of the Night
An awareness wakes me at 3:00 am the bed beside me is empty again, nights alone, The days I exhale trying to cleanse my lungs from the tightness that bounds my chest as my life becomes an island exiled by you … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan war poetry, Canadian Veterans Support, Military, poems, poetry, PTSD, r.m.jacobs, Sleep Disorders, Veterans, war poems, war poetry
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Rejection endured
I accidentally brush against you your body flinches and recoils like a snake that just struck a caress of gentle loving fingers wanting to feel the framework of your body an uncharted territory since explorers are not allowed embrace a … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan war poetry, Canadian Veterans, Canadian Veterans Support, Military, poems, poetry, PTSD, r.m.jacobs, war poems, war poetry
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Disjointed PTSD
P lease allow me to t ouch you s ense you d estroying yourself is not the answer p ain does not become you t ension so high we could both fly s oring into never did it happen … Continue reading
I Know Let’s
Let’s be together in the same room sharing our space together acutely aware of one another’s energy peripheral sense of each other’s aura the colours dancing in the blurred visual field where reality of clarity meets the fragments of colour forming … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan war poetry, Military, poems, PTSD, r.m.jacobs, Social reality, Technology, Visual field, war poems, war poetry
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Sand Shift
Sadness seeps into the sand surrounding the soldiers sitting in their pimped up LAVS singing songs of sorrow while a sleep dog lies on the lap of one soul man sucking up the positive energy from an abandoned camp mascot … Continue reading
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Will You
Will you still live with me if I no longer care about my surroundings darkness more bearable than light The laundry a chore for the living not the mentally blind Will you still crawl into bed with me sleep next … Continue reading
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Tagged a mother's voice, Afghanistan war poetry, Canadian Veterans, Military, poems, poetry, PTSD, r.m.jacobs, war poems, war poetry
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She Wore Green
I don’t know how far to take this one, it is a draft at the moment. I watched her dress that morning, we didn’t sleep, in the darkness of morning’s start her bags blocking the hallway they were larger than … Continue reading
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The Gift
Golden rose-tinted silver-grey sky optical illusions of distance play with the senses as budding trees and fresh mowed grass tickle my nose. The orange glow and yellow center burns brightly when the sun gasps its last breath of … Continue reading
Disconnected
the desert inhales you, S.A.T. phone disjointed words humming lost call disconnected lost in satellite vacuums and com* shut downs in bed, blankets bunched emptiness reaches out disconnected meals in L.A.V.s** nutrition not food conversations on patrol avoid feelings as … Continue reading
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