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.