Scars of War <br /> <br />You say your calling was the Marines, <br />But yet your life remains apart at the seams. <br /> <br />You say the life of a soldier <br />Is what saved you from yourself, <br />But vivid dreams continue to haunt you <br />to reveal remanants of the torture, <br />You had to inflict. <br />How does the act justify the means? <br /> <br />You say, your honor was stolen from you! <br />But who stole it from you? <br /> <br />You say, it was the politicians in the end, <br />that left you scorned. <br /> <br />You say we fought in a senseless war, <br />In the end you were left feeling void, <br /> <br />Void of any human compassion. How could my <br />Countrymen have abandoned us? <br /> <br />Why were we such an embarrasment to them? <br />Our politician's and leader's had us believing that <br />it was our war as well as theirs. What enemy? <br />Who's enemy? Their enemy or ours? Was it easier to forget <br />Those brave men who selflessly gave of themselves <br />For their country? <br /> <br />You say again, how could they have abandoned us? <br />No recongnition, no bands playing, just a few <br />Surviving pictures that tell the story of the <br />Suffering and the innocence we left beind, <br />Only to realize that it will continue to burn <br />In our minds and leave us scared for an eternity!<br /><br />Elizabeth Fontaine Grieco<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/scars-of-war-3/
