Enemy’s Dreams

I wonder how the former enemy copes,

now that our war is done;

does he suffer bouts of melancholy

or dream of battles lost and won?

Does a bone-deep mantle of depression

settle ‘round him like a cape

as he eases his way through the jungles 

of his mind seeking ways to escape

from the never-ending horror of

memories that will not fade?

Does he, too, mourn friends’ bodies

lying lifeless in some glade?

And is his sleep troubled by the

shadowy, stalking shade

of an ageless soldier who pursues him

along a gloomy jungle path

or waits in ambush to trap him in a 

deadly unleashing of wrath?

Is there a 'Wall of Heroes' that can

ease his mental pain

and slow the recollections that

march unbidden through his brain?

When the velvet night comes softly

to cloak the terrain from view,

does he stir in his sleep uneasily?

Is that demon in his dreams actually you?

© 9/22/2002 Thurman P. Woodfork

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