SLAVES TO OUR PAST

Slaves to a mental state

Thoughts we cannot abate

That is our destiny

That is the life we see

Day after day we live

Hoping someone will forgive

A wrong we know was right

Maybe, it was right to fight

Now we pay, day after day

Trying to turn black to gray

Trying to turn wrong to right

Night, after night, after night

We live for those that are dead

We live with sorrow and dread

But we die for country and home

It's there in the resolve we've shown

©Copyright September 7, 2007

by Terry D. Sutherland

Awarded 9/9/2007