Lou J. Klaiber

FADING MEMORIES…
(Binh-thien-ha)

Names and places
… fading faces,
one!………
(Ciao Ong!)
and many…………
(Ciao Ba!)
marching ever so silently
into the night…

Restless dreaming!………
(Dinky dao…damn dao)
… a war screaming………
(Doc lap! Doc lap!!!)
as I lay…………… always
seeming
to be there…
(Saffron robes… and bloody children…
and always Ky Nam incense burning!)

just past midnight,
bright!
Flashes of war
bright! flashes!………… a fire fight!
(MEDIC!!!!………… MEDIC!!!!)

Then silence,
then
night… again,
and quiet turning,
within a war.

Gone
is yet returning
from so long ago.
(You Number ten!!!!!!…
You ten thou!!!!!!)

A war…
(restless and holding on)
sleeping with me!

A war!

(Binh-thien-ha!)

Lou J. Klaiber

FADING MEMORIES… (Binh-thien-ha)

FADING MEMORIES…
(Binh-thien-ha)