Board Game

I am 13 in the 7th grade
Playing a board game
Of Tactics Two with
My friend John
Who years
Later
Would
Come back
From Viet Nam
With a heroin addiction
And later commit suicide as
Veterans seldom get the help
They need or deserve to get.
On a Saturday afternoon
John asks me to try his
Board game and we
Enjoy playing war
As we are 7th-
Graders and
Immortals
In our
Eyes.
My
Whole
Life has been
Involved in modeling
Scenarios of time speed and
Distance in military simulations
And transportation grids all to
Test for the best possible
Results given some set
Of conditions that
Applied which
Sounds cold
Given The
Death
Of my friend
But we both knew
That in Texas you are
Pretty much on your own
And the best you can expect
Is to find some friends you
Can trust like family then
You play the cards you
Are dealt and speak
The truth and
Risk the
Consequences
And though it all
Sounds like a western
Movie script that is
How things are in
The deep woods
Of the heart in
The heart of
Texas.