Home from the war
	A decorated colored soldier
	Another reminder that war is hell
	Likened to oppression and racism
	A shoe box is where you kept your honors


				Hidden
				

	Years followed you
	With a drink in hand
	Struggling against demons
	Robbed
	Of what should have been
				


			        Surviving
			
	
	In a peculiar way
	The fallout from your own personal war
	Eventually, you gave up!
	Letting someone else occupy the person you once were
	That is the hardest to forgive.