PULSE Magazine | April 2019 Issue

Wear the badge Walk the line Carry the baggage

Honor and duty bound with integrity and courage... this is how we wear the badge. Alarms sound, duty calls, responding with sirens blaring another tragedy, a life in peril, death and dying, accidents and violence meet once again. What waits at the end of the line weighs upon the soul. At the end of shift you shed the uniform remove the badge and empty the carried baggage but residual memories and emotions cling to you like a coat wrapping around you, whispering in your ear things that can never be forgotten. A game of cloak and dagger waiting in the mist to strike when the armor slips. Tainted souls of destroyed lives, bad decisions and broken hearts are the persistent ghosts that haunt the halls within ones mind and lives in the corridors of your soul.

A new beginning, a new day Wear the badge Walk the line Carry the baggage

Honor and duty, Integrity and courage Wear the badge Walk the line Dress the bandage.

by, S.S chwall

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