A Rebuttal to George Michael from a Veteran of the Global Wars on Terror

I don’t believe in God but I do have faith

I met God

on a mountaintop in old Bactria

before we finished our cigarettes

and went our separate ways

into the snow-glittered night

God said “Sorry”

“I kinda hoped it’d go a little different”

us too

Big Guy

us too

God is shorter than I anticipated

I could look them right in the eye

I can’t remember if they were

blue

or brown

or black

or there at all

I ran into them a few more times over there

at chow

at the morgue

at a talent show

in mirrors

and in blood

they got killed downrange before Thanksgiving

I was home by Saint Pat’s

and on the VA’s finest diet–heroin©⛧℗™ 

 by the 4th of July

war is Hell

and God checks in on Hell from time to time

to mourn their mistakes

and comfort or confound the lost

God

Cute kid

weird dude