A million miles from home
Elton John’s ‘Daniel’ streams through my
car speakers
as if it’s 1973
quickly reminding me
I am not old enough to drive
Daniel my brother
everyone knows
you just want to shake loose those
lights and cameras
shadowing you through the fields
Word has it you have returned
home
(yet again from battle)
attempting to dissolve into the
fabric of some small Texas town
one of which children google
all the way from Afghanistan
To me Daniel
you can never get away
you are stuck inside some song
like some reluctant cosmonaut
seeking inner peace
april two thousand seventeen
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