EricaC2007

My Soldier

cold, dark, wet with flashes of light a wounded man falls dead in the night a man forgotten a man slain a man never to be be seen by his family again but was it all worth it? losing your life fighting for ones country thought to be perfect but was it all worth it? a boy sits alone his father will never come home the man he looked up to the mirror image of is gone forever lost in the sludge a young woman cries a full life ahead of her no more church bells ring in her head all because of one visit a knock at the door there stand two soldiers im sorry they say delivered a message of heartbreak and pain the cycle continues to this very day of cheerful homecomings and those not so lucky a dog tag and a memory a picture or two learning a new life to live withought a few.