Hmm... Not sure why but I decided to upload this to FA. Basically I wrote this poem when my dad was in Iraq back in 2008-2009. To be honest it was done for extra credit. We had to submit something to a magazine called The Muse. Proof of our submission got us like a 10% raise in our overall grade.

Well turned out the magazine actually liked it and published my poem titled "God of War," as their first submission.

Well over the years enough people have convinced me that they liked it and felt I should actually share it with others so, here you go. It's relatively short and fairly straight forward. Hope you enjoy.

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God of War
 
I phone a friend,
That lives ten miles away.
He phones his family,
Ten thousand miles away.

I email photos of myself,
With a haircut and new clothes.
He emails me a photo,
With hair and uniform in the desert wind that blows.

I spend a dollar-eighty,
For a ten minute phone call.
He spends up to a week,
For a ten minute call.
 
I complain about the food,
To buy, what a pain it is.
He complains about the food,
How dry and plain it is.
 
I wake up at 6:00am,
To walk a mile to school.
He wakes up at 11:00pm,
To run around the motor pool.**
 
I complain about the 60 degree weather,
Sitting under the shady noon.
He complains about the 110 degree weather,
Sitting in the middle of the dunes.
 
I scream at the monitor,
As I get killed in God of War.**
He screams at the man in front,
Who got killed in the fog of war.

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Author Notes**

"To run around the motor pool." Motor pools are areas that contain vehicles. Since there was no actual track or anything where he was stationed at, him and his unit used the motor pool as an impromptu running track.

"God of War." God of War is a video game.