2023 - 3/30 - the return

[skonen_blades]

A day before I went to war
A woman and I bred
And we had only met that day
Before we went to bed
She worked inside a funeral home
Her hair was flaming red
We coupled in her workplace morgue
As both our passions led
A mortuary slab delight
"I'll see you soon." I said.

But two months later I was back
And this time I was dead
An early casualty of war
With bullets in my head
So I came back without a soul
But heavier with lead
She washed and cleaned my body up
And sewed me up with thread
And as she made me whole again
A tear or two was shed

There in the dark, she said the vows
That would have made us wed
Because inside her precious womb
Our baby grew and spread
A new life given. One life gone.
A father who had fled
A common wartime trade of sorts
For those of us that bled
I would have loved to walk with her
Our baby would instead




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