TO LIVE

It is so hard to re-learn how to smile

A hard road to travel on all the while

Rain and tears mix moisture on your face

While your mind screams “Find a place.”

So glad to be back home in The World

And seeing your beloved flag unfurled

Horrified as the flames lick at the stars

Seeing the white blacken  as fire scars

The symbol you lost brothers to defend

Has my country gone around the bend?

Did I deserve to be spit upon that day?

Was I so evil I need be driven far away?

More than thirty years ago and yet still

I am sickened by what they said “Kill, kill

Killer of children, women and innocents.”

What can I do to set up my own defense

I have been tried and convicted in their mind

As have those who left their lives behind

Only you my brothers can know real peace

That I will not find until at last I will cease

To Live…

© Spider 2008