Roaring

There is a roaring in my ears

And seems that I cannot hear

A thing

But the ocean surge of my grief

Flooding through my body

Filling the ventricles of my brain

With acid rain

I have visions of the trenches

Where my grandfather fought

Surrounded by the wreckage

Of so many broken youth

Who entered willingly into a battle

Whose unimaginable horrors

And deep terrors

Innocence hearts

Never fully understood

This thundering in my ears

Is nearly driving me insane

I see the clouds of gunfire

And feel lashings of pouring rain

And somewhere on a foreign field

You say you are at war

But how can I know what is going on

When you wont tell me any more

I was driving home again

As the next wave of grief hit

For all the broken loves

And all the other painful shit

It seems I have lived this pain for ever

And just never seems to end

And I honestly don’t know

How much more

Heartbreak life can send

Is this just way its going to be forever

Until the day my life ends?

My vision is clouded with images

Of corpses on foreign fields piled high

Fathers brothers, sons and lovers??

That never got to say goodbye

And if I am just a channel

For this great collective angst

Where is it that I can find shelter

From this tidal wave of grief

This tearing pain of ancestral anguish

That eclipses everything?