My Awesome Soldier

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    My Awesome Soldier

    My Awesome Soldier
    So Young, so brave, so optimistic

    You faced death
    Yet remained so full of life

    I was here
    Safe from danger
    Yet so scared

    Imagine that
    I needed you
    To help me through

    Every letter made my day
    Too few came

    I kept you sane?
    You'll never know what you did for me!

    My days are brighter
    My life is richer
    For knowing you

    My Awesome Soldier


    Footnote: I was writing to a young man during the first Iraq War. We corresponded the whole time he was in Iraq. I sent this poem to him, and he was overly grateful. He was scared yet did what he had to do. He was an amazing person. He came home safe, while many of his friends didn't. I lost track of him over the years but with all my heart I thank him for being my rock and my heart those two years. I'll never forget you John.

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    MAFLongfellow commented on My Awesome Soldier

    07-29-2009

    GLAD JOHNNY CAME MARCHING HOME SAFELY, GOD BLESS OUR HERO'S . GREAT WRITE, POET FRIEND, MARIILYN

    timeoutofmind commented on My Awesome Soldier

    11-17-2008

    That was wonderful that you would correspond to a stranger in time of need, gives me hope for this society, lovely poem

    Irishsoul commented on My Awesome Soldier

    11-13-2008

    I loved this poem and I can see why the it gave this soldier strength

    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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