Heather Stewart Poetry

It shouldn’t be, but recruiting turns into a numbers game. There are two sides of it and we all begin on the same side. We all must be recruited in order to be enlisted into the military. Not all recruiters are honest or great to the kid being recruited. The thing we don’t know when we’re that kid, is that those recruiters must meet expectations and they know that there are certain things that kids won’t understand until they’re in. As it turns out, most things are like that. So most of us feel a little swindled, even when they don’t lie. There’s no way to explain what it’s like to be at sea, in the field, in combat.

So the recruiter must make their boss happy, must feel their service for it to continue running smoothly, and has a little concern leftover for the kid. I was well taken care of, as I mentioned before. My parents even came with me to sign my contract and made sure everything that was supposed to be in there, was definitely in there. The people who try to do everything themselves and think they know it all will always be most taken advantage of by recruiters. It wasn’t right away, but while in boot camp and then training, I thought about some of the things my recruiter had said, some of the things that were apparently behind his words that only made sense later. And I had an honest one. Well, he was honest with me, I don’t know about everyone else.

Nevertheless, here is the lesson I learned in the entire scope of that experience:

Beware 
The wolf in sheep's clothing 
The one just doing their job 
Who spin words to not tell lies 
To make it sound like 
What you want to hear 

To prompt your actions 
Against your interests 
Beware 

Even those who wish 
They were helping 
May not be, so 
Beware