My Message To The World









I went to fight a deadly war to protect all of you,
Now my name is on the wall with nothing else to do.
What was the point if all of this, I asked a thousand times,
No one knew how to respond the question remained mine.
I was doing what they told me, and now I am gone,
No one will know what it was like, in a world that had gone wrong.
I watched the blood spill; I could taste it in my mouth,
The pain racked my body, what was this war about?
It was a losing battle, a lot of people ended up dead,
Still I tried to warn them just fight is all they said.
The war how it continued, each day I lost another friend,
I know that before long, I would join my friends again.
How right I was and how wrong it all seemed to be,
Did some of my friends go on living inside their misery?
So, if you stand before the wall, remember just one thing,
We gave our life for our country, for every human being.
Don’t let the world forget us, for we stood proud and tall.
We felt the tears, tasted the death, we had seen it all.
Now I am no longer with you, I am in a world unlike yours,
I don’t have to stand and fight, because there are no wars.
Now I look down on some of you, who never had to fight,
And think to myself that what I did somehow made it right.
Maybe you will never see death or hear the deadly guns,
But someone had to do it, to save the precious ones.
Now I leave with this message I hope the world will hear,
Please don’t leave here feeling sad, or shedding any tears.
For all of us are happy, in a world that feels so right,
It’s free of war and anger and surrounded in great light.
So smile for us now, and wipe the tears you shed,
Peace is all we know, now that we are dead.
Written By:
Lynette Allgood-Mather/L.A.Thunder
©August 20, 1996
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