POEM: LOVE OR WAR

 POEM- LOVE OR WAR

By PoetKa 

Love or War? 

What we choose

Which you prefer

Love, romance and moonlight, under twinkle light stars

Or bloody gorey body parts

Knives and bullets flying

People dying, 

Now you know

Let it be heard

The story be told

I can't forget 

When reality hits

Think about it

The saddened truths 

Of past horrors of war

I don't want to hear it

I don't want to see it

I don't want to think of it

And I Dont want to envision it

But it lingers in my head,

I can't stop thinking about it

Now I got PTSD

Social Security, 

I will now have to be

Think of it, and you will

Burn in fury too

The fire intensifying heat

I see red all in your eyes

Let's not be in disguise

Hard to talk with a straight face, 

When you talk to me, I know

Men's heads all aligned

Decapitated and placed in a row

Mouths stuffed with their bananas

For you and the whole world to know

When you mess with terror

The fools now, will die forever

Do you really wanna know

Cause we will never be the same

Once the stories are told.

I saw the visions

And Now, I know you did too

Cause they've been shared with all of you

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

The poet once was a high school English teacher. After her grandfather passed away, she left the field of teaching to become an engineer (biological), in pursuit of building and constructing homes, and real estate investing. 

During which time, working in a laboratory, she became infected with bacteria from a research experiment. She checked in at Kapiolani Emergency Room, they sent her home. Still with a migrant headache, and miserable, the next day, she checked in at Queens ER. There they treated her for Sepsis, as she was close to septic shock. Few symptoms are low blood pressure, rapid heart rate, and a severe headache. Although she appeared and looked fine on the outside,  her body was shutting down. Code blue was called, and doctors and nurses each designated for a specific task. "Am I gonna die?", she asked. The nurse responds, "No, you're gonna be fine, thats why were helping you." She was administered a cocktail of medicines antibiotics by IV.

Tests were taken, but the infection was never diagnosed, as to which strain of bacteria(s) was the cause.

That was a biological engineering lesson she learned by first hand experience, spending 10 days in the ICU.  

Researchers, most times are recent college graduates working on graduate degrees, and working in dangerous conditions not realizing the dangers of it all. The unknowns, what you cannot see is what we dealt with.

A couple years later, another graduate student was seriously injured by a gas explosion in the building next door.

As a result of missing school, her g.p.a. dropped to a 3.2 and she was dismissed from the Masters degree program after completing all her course requirements. She left school and took up ice skating at Ice Palace, Hawaii. She completed her Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta levels and regained her strengths and physically rehabilitated.

She can still receive her PhD by community service or other significant contributory work.

She achieved freestyle 1, but left ice skating to prevent any further injuries and to further her career in real estate. 

Wanted to share, thanks for reading!

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