remains

• probably armed possibly not
• well myself and somebody else and somebody else
• three of a kind all letting fly
• i see every round as it rips through his life
• i see broad day light on the other side
• sort of inside out
• pain itself , the image of agony
• his blood shadow stays on the street
• but i blink and he bursts through the doors of the bank , sleep and hes possibly armed probably not , dream and hes torn about by a dozen rounds
• and the drink and drugs wont flush him out
• hes here in my head when i close my eyes
• some distant sun stunned sand smothered land
• his bloody life in my bloody hands
• the theme of lasting guilt
• life and death for victim and killer
• inner and exterior conflict
• remains and exposure are both about first hand soldiers experience
• carted off
• on another occasion we got sent out