Coming Home
Coming home from war is a strange experience.
All your friends are gone,
Even though they are very much alive.
They just seem like strangers now,
Staying home and raising kids,
Tending to the really important things in life.
You find yourself a stranger in their midst.
They don't know the fear,
That pushed you into battle,
Or what it's like to take a human life,
Or know the look in a man's eyes,
When he draws his last breath.
They didn't miss a thing you tell them.
And you really mean it.
War teaches nothing really worth knowing.
Or we would stop war for keeps,
To stay home and raise kids,
And teach them something,
That really will last forever,
And not just seem like it.
Loving others and living life in peace.
Copyright © James Rudd | Year Posted 2009
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