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My companion is music of the soul.
Through the long nights since WWII
this music has served to make me whole.
Veteran friend, I pray this is true for you.
Instrumental music played by "Music Choice"
has a way of invading every mind,
even more than words sung by voice.
It is like sight given to the blind.
Forgotten, for a season, are the nights
which are filled with nightmarish dreams;
dreams filled with memories of awful fights
taking one back to the past, it seems.
The piano of Floyd Cramer playing,
"It Had To Be You",
or Jack Dorsey's "Goodbye To Love",
chases away all that's blue.
The color of blood upon the ground is red,
be it from an infantryman or airman;
it matters not which, for both are dead
as the red elixir flows through the sand!
What song shall we play
to take away the pain?
This memory cannot be washed
away, even with the rain!
Some soldiers of the war
must bear the memory of the dead,
for sweet sounds of music
goes no farther than the head! |
By
C. Douglas Caffey
Copyright 2006
Listed March
11, 2009 |
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Author's Bio:
C. Douglas Caffey is a disabled veteran of WWII. He
served (1944-1946) in the 509th Composite Bomb Group,
58th Wing, Air Photo Unit, 20th Air Force, United States
Army Air Force. It was the 509th who dropped the atomic
bombs on Japan and did the atom bomb tests at Bikini in
the Pacific. A chronic sufferer of PTSD since WWII, Doug
is a former college dean. He started writing poetry
several years ago and though he doesn't claim to be a
poet, he does claim to write from the heart. |
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