GOING HOME

This Soldier

Heading home this day

left a boy now a man

survived in a violent land

This Soldier

Heading home this day

a different view out this window pane

 knowing life will never be the same 

This Soldier

Heading home this day

Aftershocks settle from the past year

as flag draped coffins fill the rear 

This Soldier

Heading home this day

as buddies remain, completing their tour

giving their all inside hells door

This Soldier

Heading home this day

quietly sitting not much to say

entering the clouds, flying away

This Soldier

Heading home this day

Saying prayer's for those left behind

keep them safe these days and times

This Soldier

Heading home this day

Happy but sad, feeling safe and free

knowing others will die for me

This Soldier

Heading home this day

Fought in battle, have taken life

somehow leaving does not seem right

 This Soldier

Heading home this day

Part of me will always be there

 always will have that, thousand yard stare

© Chuck Preston 4-16-2002