Returning from Kuwait

My son has returned to the states today after 12 months in Kuwait doing convoy escort in Iraq. This was from earlier when he was still overseas:


A Whisper from Wisconsin

What to write-
A prayer for my son over seas?
An ode to exhaustion, apprehension?
A stanza of fear, anger, rage?

Or perhaps the quiet of the night
Waking from frightful dreams
Unable to rest my head again.

What can I say
That a million other mothers
haven’t said, felt, cried?

But this is MY son
And the tears fall, fears grow
My heart seems to be on hold.

So I pray
Go on living day to day
Like a million other moms .

- Dawn