Clap Clap

Clap-Clap

 

Clap-Clap

 

The sound echoes all around me

 

Clap-Clap

 

Go the Semi-Automatics

 

Clap-Clap

 

 The radio static coming in from base

 

Clap-Clap

 

 Our boots against the cold earth

 

Clap-Clap

 

 The tanks .55 mm gun sneezing out rounds

 

Clap-Clap

 

Goes a roadside bomb sending shrapnel into a Hummer

 

Clap-Clap

 

Goes the heat pounding in my chest

 

Clap-Clap

 

Is my comrades breath coming out, leg bleeding.

 

The war stopped, they want to give me a star or something

I give a short speech,

Most of it in silence of those whose clapping hearts stopped.

When I’m done

They rise to their feet

And start to

 

Clap-Clap.

 

 

 

Reviews

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

amazing how with the rhythmic repetition you open a world few of us will ever experience~ poignant in its straightforward "this is what it is" mood~ excellent poetic~

[M.Kilani]

it's more a story than a poem !! smart yet emotions-free !! the title was interesting yet the content wasn't