Go-Go Box

leaching dust and rust

and avoidance.

resting there quietly

in the darkened corner of a

spare disused bedroom.

double locked and silent

a sleeping dragon of foreboding visions

containing sharp memories

and some nightmares.

badges bullets and medals

cards from bar girls

combat knife unit patches, and.

a photo album of that battalion

all of them long cold ambushed.

in another time and mindset

that old artillery trunk

was a prized possession

sacred to the memory

of distant exotic places.

and a life filled with adventure.

©Mike Subritzky

February 2003

IWVPA "Memory Box" Project