Bobby
Sloan
The name jumps out
Not
Robert
Not
Rob
Not
even Bob
Bobby
Still
just a kid
A
goofy teenager
Dead
One
of thousands
and thousands
and thousands
Shipped
off
Then
Mangled
Shredded
Destroyed
Bobby
Sloan
Dead
Bobby Sloan
Dead
For
nothing
A
name on black granite
Dead
Nothingness.
I hate war.
I hate war.
©Conni Cartlidge, 2014