Your journey home has begun

Your fight is over, battle won

Gave your life to protect our freedom

Gave your life to give us peace

Your soul journeys to heaven

Honor your memory white doves released

Military honors well deserved

With so much pride you chose to serve

Your journey home to your final resting place

Will all the care, honor and grace

Always remembered for the sacrifice you made

The high price so many soldiers have paid

Your journey home is now done

Final resting place with green grass and sun

Watching over us from heaven above

Feeling all of your families love

Journey Home

Echos of silence throughout the night
Sleeplessness puts up a fight
Billions of stars blanket the sky
So far away I wish I could fly
The face of the moon watching the night
Peacefulness waiting for morning light
Crickets sing their night time song
Powerful voices loud and strong
Echos of silence as I close my eyes
My imagination begins to fly
Takes me to a place no one has been
Distant lands with battles to win
Castles and unicorns in my world
Dreams since I was a little girl
Echos of silence drift away
Daylight comes to begin the day

Twisted emotions anxieties scream

Confusing thoughts and pictures in my dreams

Muscles in my body twisted and tense

So many thoughts that don't make sense

What do I do, don't know how to feel

All these emotions, is this real

Tears welling up in my eyes

All I want to do is curl up and cry

So many thoughts about random things

Lets see what tommorow brings

No one to talk to about how I feel

All my anxiety, so very real

Anxiety screams take a deep breath

Close my eyes and I stand still

Don't understand what's going on

Trying so hard to be strong

Twisted emotions off and on

So much work to make them gone

Twisted emotions

Hear me Lord as I pray
Going out on patrol today
Weapons loaded, gear on my back
I am ready for any attack
Walking through towns on patrol
Ready for a fight to unfold

Hear me Lord as I silently pray
Show me and my squad the way
Eyes looking all around
Shots ring out, we hit the ground
M-16s firing back
I pray silently we survive the attack

In my mind I say the Lords prayer
Gunships firing, flying through the air
Hear me Lord as I silently Pray
Help me and my buddies survive this day

Hear me Lord I'm glad you heard my prayer
I will give myself to you with great care
I return to my rack and close my eyes
Take a deep breath and silently cry
Today thank GOD was not the day for me to die
Hear me Lord I thank you for my life
So I can return home to my kids and wife

A Personal Battle
You were sent to fight a war
That has yet to be won
You are forced to leave your newborn son
You go to a place and face death everyday
There is nothing to say
You fight each day and see your friends die
And all you can do is cry
You feel helpless and angry things haven't changed
Looking for things to be explained
Horror ingrained in your mind
Flying home and back to the grind
Nightmares cause you to scream at night
You still remember that fight
Watching your friends die
Everything has gone awry
Hoping you can find peace
Finding ways to find that release
Letting go of anger deep inside
Climbing up that mountainside
Your personal battle has been won
For you and your son
You look to the sky and tell God to take care of your friends
Then you say "Hey guys!! Till we meet again"

So many thoughts racing through my mind
Looking for an enemy we cannot find
Inch by Inch, step by step
The enemy is behind that door I bet
Rifles ready, aim is sharp
I don’t want to hear an angels harp
Sweeping for mines, explosions I fear
My friend is dead, something I don’t want to hear
Inch by Inch, step by step
Close my eyes and picture my kid’s footsteps
Foreign eyes watch and stare
US soldiers died for them, they don’t care
They needed our help and no we are here
But I think we are the ones in fear
Inch by Inch, step by step, another house clear
Close my eyes and thank god I am still here
Down the steps and out the door
Bullets firing, hit the floor!!!
Can’t see where or how far
That bullet wound is going to leave a scar
Inch by Inch, I crawl on the ground
Listening for the enemies sound
Whispering voices I can’t understand
US soldiers need to make a stand
Inch by Inch, stone by stone
Continuously facing the unknown

Words on paper let the imagination fly

They don't always make sense, no reason why

Thoughts, emotions,dreams, you write

Imagination wanders, dragons fight

Words are freedom to say what you feel

Scenarios don't always have to be real



Words on paper help you be free

Words on paper let me be me

No one to judge if its not right

I say what I think, there's no fight

My pen flows free and I write

Peaceful morning, not a cloud in site



I sit at my desk, staring at the screen

Thinking about last nights dream

Words on paper let me be free

Words on paper let me be me