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Ivory Chains of Angst country as flag
War forever reminds its minions of the pains
Held still by angst's ivory chains
Encompassing generations with war's stains
Boys of honor by their country maligned
Still fighting a fight never left behind in mind
Disinherited by countrymen irate
Mankind blaming boy soldiers for Vietnam's fate.

Boys forevermore ensnared in hell's pit
Mankind's greed snarling their spirit
Changing forever the threatened calm
Battle scarred minds needing healing balm
Boys holding that free spirit, free no more
Golden dreams eluded by dinky dau war.

Angst's ivory chains
Leave on the soul war's stains
Insoluble
Insolvable
Rife with anxiety intense apprehension
Breeding depression.

Brothers of the sword...
To live, you must face angst's ivory chains
Face-to-face fight war's weary afterpains
Wash from your mind recurrent bloodstains
What remains in forever fears complains
Festering in young princes fevered brains
Take up anew the inheritance of your
chatelains.
By Gary Jacobson
Copyright 2010
Listed September 18, 2010
 

About Author... In 1966-67, Gary Jacobson served with B Co 2nd/7th 1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam as a combat infantryman and is the recipient of the Purple Heart.

Gary, who resides in Idaho writes stories he hopes are never forgotten, perhaps compelled by a Vietnamese legend that says, "All poets are full of silver threads that rise inside them as the moon grows large." So Gary says he writes because "It is that these silver threads are words poking at me � I must let them out. I must! I write for my brothers who cannot bear to talk of what they've seen and to educate those who haven't the foggiest idea about the effect that the horrors of war have on boys-next-door."

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