half_asleep_poem_thirty_nine
raze fate of a fist:
he's a wound
with military personnel.

nothing ever happened.
nothing took his head off.

and meanwhile,
he was more human
than the people he claimed
to have killed.

a band-aid is
a sticky strip
of camouflage.

after chanting his name,
they all say the same thing.
"don't dream. don't dare."

i just wish i could have had
a hand in helping him heal.
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