Heroes! Amen!

 Heroes
(a memorial-salute to my friend: Bobby)
 
Too many names on a stone wall so black
Young brave soldiers won’t ever come back
 
Sacrificed lives vacate “ideals” construction
Death chiseled in granite, horror’s destruction
 
Those icicle fingers grope beyond wasted lost life
Piercing mothers and lovers, their children with strife
 
A mistake we allowed, this venomous deed dastardly
We pray haunts dead souls of “elite” politicos bastardly
 
Forgive us, our heroes, the people we love
Help us with healing from His Power above
 
Innocent young people on a long wall-of-black
Souls of the children who can never come back
 
Alas! And, what of us now as we struggle anew?
These issues enormous strike terror right through
 
For logic answers we search but simply can’t see
Profound problem is “us”, our own worst enemy
 
Grant us a life without further pernicious sorrows
Peaceful-quiet rest like those fallen young warriors
 
Leave them alone, steal no longer their youth
Don’t teach them to lie but rather sight truth
 
Beyond the self-centered wanton with greed
Mankind does hunger to satiate good need
 
Where are we now as onward we falter?
Far from Redemption, no spiritual altar
 
Too many names on a stone wall so black
Young brave soldiers won’t ever come back
 
Amen!