To Sleep, perchance to Grind one's Teeth
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Old warriors. Even older wars.
"Have an Anzac bickie."
"Is it crunchy or soft?"
"Dunk it in your tea."
"Those young guys
at Gallipoli,
They had to dunk their
hard, hard tack bickies, *
but they did have tea."
"The young vets **
returning now,
how can they sleep
if they drink tea?
Can they sleep?"
"I heard they grind their teeth
when they do sleep."
Remembering also
those that sleep
and sleep.
Copyright: Running on Empty
*biscuits, cookies
** military veterans
safe link to hard tack article
safe link to young returned veteran article
4 comments:
Tea. Now there's a good idea.
I needed some myself, to finish this and the next post. Lovely stuff, tea. If you can get it, try Nerada Tea, organically grown and processed in Australia, very nice.
The poem is beautiful. So sad. Is it too much to say it echoes Wilfred Owen? I don't think so.
It's one of my worst, but the ptsd is important. Someone close to me used to grind their teeth in their sleep from unresolved problems. It's an unpleasant sound.
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