David Rose Biography
Hello everyone. I guess I have some cretive blood in me. At age 9 I started oil painting. at 13 I picked up the classical guitar and became a concert classical guitarist by age 18. I just enjoy creating things from my own custom home to my current hot rod.
Most recently this PTSD from the Vietnam War has caught up with me after 45 years. To assist with my therapy, I have begun writing. I find it very helpful in assisting to format healthy thoughts. It is my wish that you find my poetry helpful in some manner. These poems should enlighten you to the mind and thoughts of the PTSD diseased veteran war.
Not I, but I know of a hero who...
Threw himself on a grenade in the mud
Fortunately for him, it was a dud.
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When I built my PTSD house 45 years ago
I installed a septic tank down below
A lot of poop has built up over the decades
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Have to run now
To distance my emotions somehow
Not sure of what to do with everything I was feeling
My intrusive thoughts kept me reeling
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Considering becoming a man of the moon
The opposite of living life around noon
What difference would it make
The time of day I am awake
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