Auteur Inconnu (Author Unknown)

A Poem by Dano

Good morning, a whispered shout
Dear you've never looked this way
There's no glint in your eyes
Have you gone away
Please god i pray let him save them
Just once let him come home a hero
Don't cover his hands in their blood
Please god i pray let this be his last night away

I miss you, the front lines have fallen
I fear this might be the last you hear of me
For some time i have wondered what you would do without me
Could you move on, would you want to
I love you my dearest

(My love this is the beginning
It seems {I was wrong} the end is near,
I even have hopes of seeing you again)

Elaine,
          I regret to inform you that your husband
has been killed in action. His bravery has
saved the lives of countless soldiers.
   Sincerely,
                Auteur Inconnu

© 2012 Dano

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Terrance Brown

Interesting thoughts. I'd like to ask why the lack of grammar in the first three stanzas? Especially the i instead of I? I think it detracts, but I am a stickler for that sort of thing. And is there any place that actually signs those sorts of notes Auteur Inconnu? I don't suppose it matters in the end, its never fair. I leave you with one of my favourite poems, written by a Zimbabwean poet named Chenjerai Hove, for some further insight into the matter:

A WAR-TORN WIFE

This war!
I am tired
of a husband who never sleeps
guarding the home or on call-up,
never sleeping!

Maybe inside him he says
‘I am tired of a wife
who never dies
so I could stop guarding’.