How Do I Explain the Feeling and Sensation of War?

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How Do I Explain the Feeling and Sensation of War?
HOW DO I EXPLAIN THE FEELING AND SENSATION OF WAR?
By Al Garcia

Have you ever been lost in a dream, wondering endlessly through the corridors of time, glimpsing images in mirrors of unremembered faces and places? Have you ever felt the coldness of a stare or an unwanted glance that told you more than words could ever say? Have you ever felt alone in the middle of a crowd and wondered why no one seemed to care? It is the eclipsing vestiges of life betrayed and life revealed through glimpses of reality and fantasy. It is the revelation of our existence disguised in dreams and visions of yesterdays and days to be.

It is the senselessness of war that captures the lonely hearts and fractured minds of boys and men and extinguishes the brilliance of the human soul and smothers the resonance and breath of unlived dreams. It is the madness of war that forever stains the sensations and the passions that once defined the essence of our being. Soldiers never ask the reason why. Soldiers simply march into the shadows and darkened fields of war -- some to die upon a battlefield, others to return and live a thousand days of death inside their fragile and brittle minds.

When once we cherished the memories of our lives, we now dread the visions and the sounds that war has etched upon my minds. And we find ourselves lost in dreams. Wondering endlessly through the corridors of time, until the senselessness and madness finally drains our breath away.

War is a hard feeling and sensation to explain, and even harder to relive again and again.

 

[Delmar]

I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles out of Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah
Yeah
Oh yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0-7fg8oAO4

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I feel this way after a night of too much whiskey and carrot juice.

It's not war.