FLOWER CHILD

Children of the days of love

Sixties girls and turtle doves

Flowers in long straight hair

Flower crowns everywhere

Peace was the battle sound

Brothers and sisters forever bound

No guns or knives anywhere

Just dancing and music in the air

Who will make the bread they eat?

Who will cover their tender feet?

No one knows and no one cares

Everyone brings and everyone shares

On the other side of the pond

Real guns and soldiers bond

No flowers in their hair

Only blood and war's despair

Most stayed for one long year

Wearing green and battle gear

Waiting for the chance to be

On a plane and cross the sea

Wearing flowers in their hair

Living free without a care

Knowing the secret that they hide

They can never in a friend confide

Now the flower child has found

To the brothers of war they are bound

Only the innocent can wear the flower

Youth and innocence war has devoured

©Copyright August 20, 2007 by Terry D. Sutherland

Awarded 8/22/2007