#53 - Deepest, darkest

April 1st, 2007.......

AMALGAMATION DAY

Pray tell dear sir, why for thou hast named this day thusly?
Forsooth dear reader, I have so named this day as it is:

A. April Fool's Day
B. The beginning of National Poetry Month
C. Sunday Scribblings day
D. IRS month

#53 - Deepest, darkest

The prompt for this week is: "deepest, darkest."

This morning I read a few of my favorite writers submissions to Sunday Scribblings before penning my own. I already knew what my subject was, and the form it would take. After I read Tammy's scribble over at her blog "The Daily Warrior", I was humbled by her courage in facing her fears. In addition I was embolden to say what I knew I needed to say in the language that exemplified of how I felt at the time of my deepest and darkest hour.

I'm bracketing my poem with quotes that I find express succinctly man's inhumanity to man in general and war in particular.

"The chain reaction of evil -- wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The darkest of night;
1965

What darkness this?
Beyond all remembrance...
Darker than the inside of
An asshole!
Hiding in the olive drab
Rain dome
To smoke a fag
So charlie won't see
The glow
And shoot my fucking eye out!

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

- George McGovern

1965..rel, Chu Lai "Nam