Returning Home After Seventy Years

They drew in foreign power and invaded

The other brothers in the name of liberation.

With the army who changed uniform, they raided

At dawn, suddenly. With difficulty, nation

Defended against an enemy desperately.

The young soldiers’re at the age of twenty.

Elder brother was dead at the battle

Of Youndug, Pohang at the Walker line.

After In-Cheon Operation, they retreated to scuttle.

They kicked off the enemy like to chase the swine

To north at last. He served at KATUSA,

But sadly he dead in the shield of MED-USA.

At Chosin Reservoir, he was too young to die

At high-teen. With other soldiers he was covered

By the white snow, waiting the evacuation to lie.

But too long the evacuation, ’cause not discovered.

At last, Choi Im-rak, he had a trip to Hawaii

And waited the physical examination at the Hawaii.

With his nephew, he took aboard a plane.

And coming back to his hometown, the journey’ll end

And he’s passing the soldiers to Hollowed Plain

Where his brother is waiting at the other end.

Beside the Choi, Sang-Rag. Choi, Im-Rag will rest

Forever. Never forget, owing to them we can rest!

(30^th, Jul., 2023, Kinsley Lee)