I Never Went Waltzing Matilda

• Artist: DeCrazySheep
• Description: Not really a poem persay. Just thoughts I had durring a day on base.
  I've never really been good at admitting when I was seriously hurt or at a dissadvantage. Even though I joke about it.
  I hated it for those brave men and women. They lost a limb I'd never had, gained things I'll never know and cry about things I'll never truely understand.
  This is the song I referance:
  http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html
• Date: 04/05/2009
• Tags: never went waltzing matilda

I fit in now.

I stare like o' so many children I've told

'It's really just better to ask.'

But I know how this happened.

The stories differ

but the source is the same

Gunshot wound

I.E.D.

Car flipped

Chopper downed

Fire

Fights

Jihad

I fit in now



I blend in now

and stick out

like the new found christian

in the cancer camp

I lack their nobility

Inherent at the loss

It could be worse

trust me

I'm lying

I speak from experience

It

wills

worse

things

to come



I'm the wise one now

warning these older naive

veterans of two decades or less

when it'll hit them

giving half a hug

trying to

grab the quarter empty cup

that's ready to boil over

the little sayings that now sting

the

jokes they'll invent

just to prove

steam doesn't burn



You have to have 'Arms' to be in the Army

There's a plural there

I'd die

so they wouldn't have to live

like



'Special Operations'

make me cannon fodder

I'd die

as long as they don't get eaten

like



But people are holding doors open now

some look at me proudly

most still stare

or pretend to look away

but no one asks

how



I'm the right age, in the right area

so I must be a 'living' casualties of war

The only battle I've lost

is the one for identity

smiling politely as I'm pushed away

in with the lucky safe

if not altogether

whole or healthy

for them

I still want to go waltzing across the quay.


(thank you for reading, comment if you please))

Comments

[DeCrazySheep]

just that as soon as you think you've got a gripp on it you realize there's something else you cant do, or have to do, or someone you forgot to tell.. ect. ect.
"It could be worse."
"Don't kid yourself the *good* parts coming up."

[I-Died-From-Laughing]

*Killvin's Mule* Wow... that was amazing... the only thing that confused me a little was... "I speak from experience It wills worse things to come" The 'wills' part.. I didn't see a lot of rhyming.. but that shouldn't be held against you.. it's just something I like.. but it does have a lot of imagery and appeal to emotion.. ^ ^ I loved it.. 5/5!