I Love You Man-----Remembrance Day Poem from Jude Kyrie

It was so many faded years ago
We were seventeen or eighteen in Nam.
we became friends forever.
No much more than friends.
Soldiers get closer than wives.
We went to sleep saying
I love you man.

We switched letters
for our girlfriends.
In case… well just in case.
The bullets rained
in the clearing that night.
I can still see the tracer lights.
Guys fell down all around me.
Crying everywhere.

Airpower cleared the enemy away.
I looked for Joe he was hit bad.
I held him close to me
like a baby as he left us.

His last words were
I love you man.
I whispered to him
Not as much
as I love you Man

.I did not notice that I had been hit.
After six months I returned home
To the states.

In West Virginia his beautiful girl
opened the door of a small trailer.
She had a small baby in her arms.
Her blue eyes welled with tears.

I passed the unopened letter to her.
I lied and said the blood
on it was mine.
She passed the baby
to me to hold
As she read the letter
.
I kissed his tiny forehead.
And said see buddy
You’re not dead at all.
I love you, Man.

AUTHORS NOTE.

As you may guess
Jude hates war

But today we must remember
all those that gave their today's
that we may have our tomorrows
I Love You Man
Jude