A Soldier’s Eyes
Do you know the way home?
I have been here far too long
I have seen too many of my sisters and brothers fall
I have heard the angels sing the Soldiers song
I have folded too many flags
I have heard Taps played
Over and over again
I have lost both my bother and my friend
My eyes have seen
More blood then I care
To ever share
There is eternal silence
In every Soldier’s 1,000 mile stare.
My eyes were once blue;
They have turned grey with each day
In this forsaken desert place
My eyes have seen the tears of War
Where mothers lose their husbands
And children lose their fathers
To a fight that makes no sense
My eyes have seen death
And death is looking back at me
There’s no one that can understand
The things I have seen, unless they are me.
My Enemy is outnumbered
With our technology and arms
But it doesn't stop them from coming
With their suicide bombs
Another Hummer blew up in the road
Six more Soldiers just lost their souls
To a one way ticket to heaven
So the story goes?
The strangest thing is that I been home
For two months, But in my dreams
I am still with my sisters and my brothers
In my dream; it’s as if I never left Iraq
In my dreams I wish I was back
How strange is that
I have been home for two months
Yet I can no longer call it home
I long to be some place else than
Where I am, I no longer fit
When I left home I was just a kid
They tell me I am now a man
Only I can see the blood on my hands
If this made me a man
Well then God please forgive me
For killing my country’s Enemies
My dream is always the same
My dream always takes me back
To the hot desert of Iraq,
To the memories of a mother and her children's tears.
Written by: Ruby Alexandra Beloz
© 11/21/04
11/22/2004
Ruby Alexandra Beloz
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