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| Memories and Feelings...On Patrol
by paclantchief at 3/4/2008 5:32:56 PM
I keep these memories and feelings in a box deep within my heart and mind.From time,to time,when I am at rest,they come flowing out.I'm back.
Memories and feelings...
The sounds,the heat. I can almost smell the dank,rotting vegitation.Smell the charcoal smoke,the sweat,grease, and diesel fuel.The cordite.
I find myself being drawn up that river once again with my shipmates,my friends.Forever on patrol.forever young.
Memories and feelings....
I see their faces.Recall the dreams we shared,the fights we had,the good times and bad.Dreams of the food we'd eat,girls we would love,lives we would live back in the world.
Memories and feelings....
The river draws me onward.sounds and confusion enters my mind.Noise,screams and curses.Flashes of lights,arcs of tracers.Terror,pain,dispair.they wash over me.An irresistable tide.
Memories and feelings....
The images become Stark and dreadfull.a new feeling enters into my mind.Sorrow,Despair.My friends are around me,but I draw no comfort from them.They are like strangers to me indistinct and out of focus.A new more painfull feeling comes to me.Guilt.Why them and not me?My shipmates come back into focus.They surround me,comforting me,reassuring me soothing my tourtured mind.The waters become calmer.I find myself drifting back to where I started. the memories and feelings ebb back to the box again.I am at peace once more.I stand down.Untill the next patrol....
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