Writings of a Warrior Poet

Combat remembered as residue, what follows you home, settles into the nervous system, and rewrites sleep, silence, and vigilance long after the fighting ends.

• The Breach
  Sleep becomes a threshold you don’t cross without contact.
• The Forever War
  The battlefield moves inside and refuses to redeploy.
• The Clock Doesn’t Tick
  Time turns to drip when your body won’t stand down.
• Flashbang
  Pain hits like an ambush, instant, total, and loud in the spine.
• Darkness
  The night isn’t empty, it’s active terrain.
• From the Bottom of the Well
  The descent strips the lies and leaves only truth.
• Down the Rabbit Hole (V2)
  Memory becomes gravity, and you fight to come back up intact.
• In the Silence of the Night
  Quiet turns into a negotiation with what still follows you.
• PTSD
  A war that followed you home and learned your name.

Not sentimentality, responsibility. A mission measured in presence, patience, and the quiet work of making a child feel safe inside the world.

• The Good Stuff
  Fatherhood doesn’t fix you, it makes you honest.
• If I Were to Die Tomorrow
  A legacy message written with no room for denial.
• Her Light, My Shadow
  A child’s brightness beside the weight you don’t show her.
• Her Backpack
  What she carries, and what you refuse to add to it.
• The Mission Rewritten
  Success redefined: trust, gentleness, and staying close.
• The Weight of Wings
  Single fatherhood carried quietly, one ordinary act at a time.
• The Armor and the Lullaby
  Single fatherhood as devotion, discipline, and quiet redemption.

Leadership stripped of rank and noise, discipline turned inward, accountability without an audience, and standards held when nobody’s watching.

• Tactical Leadership Writings
  A collection of inward command: calm, clarity, and consequence.
• Command and Control
  Own everything. Scan the field. Adjust fire before impact.
• Orders from Within
  Discipline as scaffolding, the mission stays live.
• The Quiet Orders
  Routines speak louder than volume when storms hit.
• Doctrine in the Dust
  The rules you built after the manuals stopped working.
• Brothers in Arms (for Parker)
  Brotherhood as the one bond the war couldn’t break.
• The Paradox of Peace and Violence
  Peace isn’t harmlessness, it’s controlled power.

The unseen labor: identity, vigilance, memory, and healing, not erasing the past, but putting it in order so it doesn’t drive. These pieces are meant to be read in sequence, moving from vigilance and fracture toward clarity, presence, and integration.

• Self
  Not conquest, command.
• What Shows
  Character revealed quietly, long after appearances wear off.
• Message of Impermanence
  Nothing stays, including what you think never will.
• A Word to Light
  One true word becomes an anchor in the dark.
• Against the Tide
  Staying upright when the current wants you back.
• Clearer Things
  Clarity earned after the fog lifts.
• The Breath That Remembers
  The body keeps score, and still keeps you alive.
• The Screams
  When silence sounds like danger, you learn a new rhythm.
• The Real Standard
  Strength without hardness, stay reachable.
• Watchtower
  Operational isn’t healed, it’s present and standing watch.
• Blink
  Suspended between memory, absence, and the edge of sleep.
• Reckoning
  Survival built the machine. Healing dismantles it.
• To the Healers Who Won’t Turn Inward
  When helping becomes hiding, the invitation is to return to yourself.
• Dawn Practice
  Arrival over escape, attention as a daily discipline.