{"id":216,"date":"2019-11-05T12:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/?p=216"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:05:53","slug":"i-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfcc.edu\/storyforce\/i-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Andreah Anderson, United States Army<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wondered would it ever go away<br \/>\nThe pain, the nightmares, and all the regrets.<br \/>\nWould time do its course and would it become easier to bare<br \/>\nDoes waking up in the middle of the night in cold sweats come to cease?<br \/>\nI wondered would it ever make sense to the people that love me most?<br \/>\nDo the feelings become easier to express, I wondered.<br \/>\nDid the art of war change my view of life?<br \/>\nThe cries of the wounded forever lingered<br \/>\nRemembrance of the fallen I effortlessly would have given my life for.<br \/>\nSo I wonder how one forgets the pain that troubles the mind in so many ways.<br \/>\nI remember every step.<br \/>\nI remember every smell.<br \/>\nI remember every sound.<br \/>\nI remember every moment.<br \/>\nBut, time passed, and I forgot to wonder.<br \/>\nI lost myself in the pain, in the nightmares, and in all the regrets.<br \/>\nTime did its course and life became a little wearier.<br \/>\nThe cold sweats became a normal routine.<br \/>\nThe people I love will always be the people I love but they forgot to love through my pain.<br \/>\nI became silent because speaking of it was never easy.<br \/>\nMy view of life had been slowly covered from the art of war.<br \/>\nThose cries, oh those cries, those loud painful cries never got dull.<br \/>\nThe regret formed.<br \/>\nI made it home and my battles had fallen.<br \/>\nI did wonder but I don\u2019t wonder anymore.<br \/>\nI stopped wondering a long time ago.<br \/>\nI have to live with this, I have lived with this.<br \/>\nSome of the bravest couldn\u2019t live with this.<br \/>\nBut, I wonder will anyone understand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andreah Anderson, United States Army I wondered would it ever go away The pain, the nightmares, and all the regrets. 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