memento.mori

[nevernottrue]

i don't know what made me click
into the tributes pages on msnbc
this memorial day weekend.



but i'm sitting here with
tears running down my cheeks
reading about kids born
the summer i graduated from high school,
fathers whose kids miss them
even though they don't remember them
very well anymore,
daughters whose dads say
they'll never be quite right again.
brothers in arms,
guys that grew up next door,
grandsons,
granddaughters.

hold your special people close,
you all.

whether it's this stupid fucking war,
or being at the wrong intersection at the wrong time,
or pain that would not give peace,
or time's last breaths,
we don't know when it's coming
so hold them close today.

i'm going out to the garden.