Veterans Day

Veterans Day is Armistice Day in other nations, right?

or is that Memorial Day

one  two days a year veterans and war may be thought about

not mourned

celebrated

red white blue band and kids candy

big roaring motor bike bbq

what for

a parade to mourn

where is the mourning

did we all forget to mourn the loss

the pain the destruction

where is all the mourning

and for what is all this for

a march

a celebration

we are proud and strong and powerful

I am vulnerable

I am vulnerable

I am human just human

weak and strong and aware that I am just human

just vulnerable

can Veterans Day

my day

our day

be a memory of our fear

our death

our vulnerability and waiting to die

waiting for road side bomb

and massive explosion

destruction and reconstruction

roadside bomb

vulnerable

radical vulnerability

in fall in sun-setting evening

and fall

fall

fall

leaves death and moving time to all our deaths

I am vulnerable human and proud.