When my eyes shine there are tears threatening to fall.
When I smile there is a frown engraving itself onto me.
When I laugh there is a cry creeping into me.
I am a screen
When you look at me there's a crack.
When there's a crack there's a piece falling to the floor.
Crack.
When that piece shatters I'm less a person than I originally was.
When I appear happy there's a deep feeling of hatred within.
Crack.
Don't leave me stranded after the things you have seen,
instead stand by me and help me wash it off my skin.
Crack.

This is a poem about Lucy
She's thinkin' about someone
she loves
someone far away
someone who can''t help but think
about Lucy too
even in their hardest times
someone older then her
someone mentally ready for pain

Long distances love stretches through
far across the globe
never thinning even at the farthest distances
between shots the one across seas
will say "I'll come back for you.
I won't come back in a letter
I won't come back in a coffin
I'll come back
I'll come back in person
I'll come back to you alive."

Xavier is 15 he is in 10th
his mom is a veteran who knows her past
She was a mechanic in the gulf war
she was beaten down
and broke

Now every day she has to take ten different
pain killers, and two kinds of muscle relaxers
she is always in pain
her back is the main reason for this

Xavier asked his mom to get something for him
She leaned and dropped to the floor
and said
"Sorry Xavier, I'm hurting too much. We'll have to leave."
Xavier frowned and pouted
he looked down at his mother's face
she was on the brink of tears
he bucked and lifted his mom
and took her to the car

there she took more pain killers and a ibuprofen
she sank down into the car seat
her became calm and sighed before he opened the door
he handed her the credit card
and started the car
he drove her to the Va
where they gave her more pain killers
and  prescribed her more
and more pain killers

Our Veterans and Active members of the Military
are the reason for our freedom
the reason for our living
they gave us this gift
and Veterans day just isn't doing it
we shouldn't just thank
and support them around this day
Veterans day should be every day
It's sad we can't that happen, even after all they've done