Exceptional A veteran's perspective. Broken by Douglas Goff Acrostic Poetry Contest contest entry

Pulling at me, my anguish tears Angry and alone, nobody cares In my thoughts I am so lost Nobody understands the dreadful cost Fully aware of my mental rage Unable to advance my life's sorrowful page Lurid memories of war, the cruelest of cage Recognized Author Notes Not all war wounds are visible. Not all who survived, really survived. Although I am a veteran, I wrote this poem in honor of a family member who served in both Desert Storm and Desert Shield. The battlefields have faded away, but his mental scars have not. These are the words that many vets use to describe their low points:: anguish alone lost dreadful rage sorrowful cruelest (bold in the poem) We sent them out and broke them. We have a responsibility to try and fix them.

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