To all our service women and men deceased and living,
for your service and your sacrifice,
THANK YOU!
Home, where we’ve never been
Yes, we were was born there
But we weren’t soldiers then
We’ll go home
To different places
It won’t be easy
To hide the war on our faces
The battlefield we’ve seen
The look of horror at every turn
In the midst of gunfire everywhere
Oh, the pain that burns
How does a soldier
Return to a tranquil life
To loving families
Raise beautiful kids with adoring wife
Will the war ever end
The memories in our head
All of us soldiers
We share a common thread
Some of our sisters and brothers
Will go home in a body bag
And to their families
A folded American flag
The casualties on both sides
Weights upon our souls
Forever a soldier grieves
For the soldier’s life he stole
But we’re all strong
Together, we’ll stand proud
We served our country
The only way we knew how
And every time we see that flag
And the faces at every door
It’s then we remember
All that we fought for
Yes, we’re going home
Where there’s blue skies above
The United States of America
The land that we love
Copyright © Accidental Poet 2011