The Effects of Vietnam
After ten years I’m finally back alive,
No glory after the war not even a welcome home.
All my friends are dead, but I had survived,
I don’t know why I had to live but my brother got to die.
Every night the horrors come back
I wish I could forget that very night black.
The night I met the little Asian child,
I knew the poor kid was completely innocent.
It didn’t seem to matter to the general at all.
“Shoot them all down you can’t tell if they’re safe,
For if you don’t do it then your own life is at stake.
They are all our enemy regardless of age.”
Why were we fighting, I couldn’t see a cause,
But they kept pushing us forward ceaselessly on.
I have hated this war with all that I’ve got,
But they didn’t seem to care about what we thought.
So now I’m here looking at the wall,
Waiting patiently for my own time to fall.
Looking back at my time in hell,
Now remembering all my friends who fell.
Laying down flowers in memory of Jim.
I wish with my heart I could trade places with him.
I most certainly can’t so I guess life must go on,
I must live my life for myself and my brothers now gone,
For the rest of buddies that won’t get to see the next dawn.
So here I am now just mourning the loved
Tying to see how I can find peace like the doves.
I’ll start by going home to the family I love,
And give each and every member a gigantic hug.
Then to Church on Sunday and Wednesday too,
And pray before meals and bedtime to end new
Wars and conflicts that enter our lives,
That they me be solved without wasting more lives,
And peace and harmony may come to all
Rather than bloodshed and many that fall.
“Dear God, help the world to know resolve
Without battle, and fighting and death so we can evolve
To a more peaceful relationship with the world.” |
