EvannaM2007

In a hospital bed on the old side of town laid a ww1 vet in a shaggy white gown Remembering the days he served his nation And being hit by bullets with a stinging sensation He was stationed in the trenches in Germany With hundreds of others for what felt like eternity With a drop of the gas, and the shot of the gun He’d pick off enemies one by one This is how it went for 3 straight years Until this old man was stricken with fear He was shot in the leg, and knocked in the skull He toppled to the ground, lifeless and cold Under a dark blue sky, with explosions sound They picked his crippled body off of the ground They whisked him away, and doped him with meds And wrapped a bandage around his head As they carted him off, he said to himself Hopefully no other American has to live this hell As he lay there motionless he often heard What sounded to him like the end of the earth The veteran always remembered the days of the war How they shipped in troops, more and more How he grieved for the wounded, and the dead How he would never forget the words that they said Now this veteran lay in a hospital in Maine With a chunk from his skull and some missing brain He will always remember his fallen friends Forever and ever until his life ends