Unrelenting Reflections

Oh, how he remembered…

A Boy Scout essential,
the polished metal card mirror,
the unbreakable monitor,
made to master Morse code,
used to measure wanna-have whiskers,
and such.

So it went,
from puberty to manhood,
hall locker,
to gym locker,
toiletry bag,
to duffel bag,
Afghan's mountain-dead,
to triage hospital bed.

Wrapped eyes needed little
of the metal card mirror now,
as blindness tearfully engaged
the enslavement of memory.

Oh, how he wanted to forget.