Silent-tears!

  Eyes absent-tears!

(song-of a soldier’s-despair)

 

Patriotic-children! Young-men! Pure-Hell! to-bear

Too-many horrors-seen---eyes absent-tears…just-stares

Dispirited-orbs dead, the boy-man can no-longer care

Thunder-call instantaneous mortal metal-rain try-kill us-all

New-friend Private-Rick left no-trace of his answered-call

 

Fireworks explosion-red backlighted ship-silhouettes at-sea

Battle-Wild cacophonous raged-concussions focused-deadly

Airplane-engines drone-above spitting-evil .50-caliber strafe

Myriad Silent/Spoken prayers: “Dear-Lord! Keep us-safe!”

 

I stopped all dead-tally and can’t remember any number-count

They were-us and we were they as confused sick-carnage mounts

 Patriotic-children! Young-men! Pure-Hell! to-bear

Too-many horrors-seen---eyes absent-tears…just-stares

Dispirited-orbs dead, the boy-man can no-longer care

 

Some General-elite somewhere ordered his-people advance

On-paper his-courage might honor an-additional star-chance

 

On U.S.-soil back-home a politico gave a rousing patriotic-speech

Lying words-of-meaningless-air on deaf-ears enlightenment-teach

 

A mere-boy conscripted-man fitfully nightmare-sleeps of Sweet-Lou

Did his-demise result in-this-Hell? Life-is-spent which he once-knew

 

Somewhere in the dark or gold-sun does my-name bullet purpose-fly?

One-day only to see my-children and their progeny in-Love! to-comply

 

Patriotic-children! Young-men! Pure-Hell! to-bear

Too-many horrors-seen---eyes absent-tears…just-stares

Dispirited-orbs dead, the boy-man can no-longer care

 

Might-I had some-choice my-plight surely could vastly-improve

Proud! Will I-live!  &-Love! &-fight! &-die! In a Patriotic-groove

 

Patriotic-children! Young-men! Pure-Hell! to-bear

Too-many horrors-seen---eyes absent-tears…just-stares

Dispirited-orbs dead, the boy-man can no-longer care

Amen!