Iraq Surge

A poem by

STEPHEN C. WETLESEN

© COPYRIGHT 2007

Turgid roiling seas.

The contest is announced

and promoted

by those whose children

and grandchildren

and kin

will never have to ride a board.

The soldiers are brave

who challenge the wave,

but no champions  master

a chaotic

 tsunami.

Some sky high whitewater faces

admit no wood

and all who attempt them

wipe out.

The wise withdraw.

There is no shame

nor dishonor,

just deep understanding.

Survival is always

precious

and some victories

are pyrrhic.

When several species of killer shark

do combat,

let them have the waters

to themselves

and their own

arguments.

Just leave.

No, there is no battling a tidal wave

nor the predators swimming it.

The only victory is this: common sense.

© COPYRIGHT 2007 by STEPHEN C. WETLESEN

STEPHEN C. WETLESEN, a published poetic artist and writer and graduate of the University of California Berkeley,

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