Life, love, and happiness

all these things I had before today

Now I go on knowing of the darkness

For the sake of families in the grey.



Bloodshed, war, and sorrow

A ****** plain filled with bones

Uncertain of a future or a tomorrow

Fighting in a field of sticks and stones.



All that I have is a gun and a blade

Against opposition twice our size

Bodies buried in masquerades 

Husbands dead without a goodbye.



If ever I make it back

I would carry a lifelong scar

A part of my dreams turn to pitch black

While I live a life after the war.

When you are with me

I would make kings and queens kneel

For you I would part the seas

And make  mountains fall to your heel.



I ask not of you money

nor will I ask for sacrifice

Because you alone are sweet as honey

And that alone will suffice.



I may not know much about romance

nor how to make a girl mine

but I shall stand up with guidance

To make you mine and mine alone.

Trees everywhere i look

The flowing stream is all I hear

A scene out of a story book

All that is missing is you right here.



Walking on the gravel path

Chirping birds like wind chimes

Takes my sense away from life's wrath

And to nature's intimate sets of rhyme.



With the sun in my eyes at dawn

And the moon and stars at dusk

Diversity in flora and fauna

The scent of nature's calming musk.


Then back to reality I go

Knowing that I had good self-talk

Hoping to go back to nature's toe

And once again go on a nature walk.

As time flew by with such haste
All those memories, gone without a trace
All of those efforts went to waste
All that was left was an unfinished phrase

No more going back to those times
Where we laughed, cried, and shared this pain
All that is left is this poem of rhymes
With hints of ink stains