"To Nowhere to be Found"

“To Nowhere To Be Found…”

cji

6/28/19

Prelude

It was 0345 – when a solitary figure approached the Viet Nam monument.  Looking for only one name among the thousand, one he knew wouldn’t be found.

It was darker than pitch

It was silenter than shhh…

Of the dawn breaking into day

I went forward to see my old friend

Just one more time,

But with eyes that couldn’t see

Ears which couldn’t hear

My hands couldn’t feel

For his name wasn’t there

It was darker than pitch

It was silenter than shhh….

The deadly night not yet day

To be someone unknown

Was the price my friend had to pay

For when he went forward

To meet the coming dawn,

It was in Korea, DMZ, 1965

And the landmine as APO, Russia,

Peace, conventional war, trustem,

A gift of “no – win” war.

Forgotten my friend

Nowhere found

Darker than pitch

Silenter than shhh….

Has the night only really just begun

(Written in 1982)

(Today – his name is now there

wondering how and why

interesting how facts change

wondering the why and how

might we never know

as many more are unknown!)

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