Terry W. Sako

VIETNAM – CRAPSHOOT

As a man I marched

Ramrod stiff into war’s cruel machinations

Mercilessly snatched up and cast off
by the Oldsters to craven to care

But…

I was just a boy
of treasured youth

Spirited off!

Mother’s grasp unwilling

So unwise in the ways of the world

Yet…

Yearning to roll the die
In that gambit of being