Poetry: The Police Have My Back

 

Raphael, “St. Michael Vanquishing Satan,” 1518
St. Michael is the Patron Saint of Law Enforcement.

The Police Have My Back

Written 2018-2023.

While Guardsmen like me

Are serving overseas,

Our fam’lies are safe here

Because of all these.

These brave men and women

In uniforms blue,

Are tested and proven,

Protect us they do.

Their patches are made up

Of blue and of gold,

Like sheepdogs they protect

The city’s own fold.

See, my wife was held up

At gunpoint by thieves,

When I was training for

Army ATC.

Officers responded to

My wife in distress,

And they were so quick that

SWAT made the arrest.

See, SWAT was out driving

When the alert came,

And they saw the car and 

The license plate same.

SWAT found other forms of

Identification

From other victims in

The same situation.

So you see how I’m grateful

Whenever I pack,

I have naught to worry:

The police have my back.