Marine Haiku

Nine teen eighty-two
The few, the proud, a Marine
Marine Corps boot camp

 

They try to break you
Tear you down to build you up
Can’t if your mind works

 

Many young men fall
Into the macho mind game
I already knew me

 

The Marine image
I wanted to make the team
To see if I could

 

Seemed important
Shows growing up watching
John Wayne, Clint Eastwood

 

That night in boot camp
Red tracers shooting hill side
First night fire fight

 

I understood then
I saw things for what they were
War was not for me