I Need To Know the Great War

Somehow I always knew you would die, you had the mark of a man that will not make it, It had to happen, you had so much to live for, a wife, a child and a good solid family, The sight of the blood and suffering you found it hard, I saw you turn your head away, I would bet my boots that you look down from heaven and still you turn your head away. What's it like up there, can you sleep at night and is it so cold it makes a man cry, When you smile does the mud caked on your freezing face crack when it has dried hard, Are there black and white rats that feed on dead bodies the whites going for the eyes, Do you have someone to hold you and whisper kind soothing words, quietly in your ears. Was there an angel standing near as you climbed up the ladder for that very last time, I need to know! is there is an angel sitting by me on the very long and lonely nights, Please, please tell me there is more than this and that one day this will all go away, It's been so very long and so very hard, I need to know my friend I just need to know. You was a decent friend and I miss our long talks on these long bitter winter nights, We talked of home and I sobbed, your kind words of hope kept me going, in hard times, I wished we had been friends before this, you were a good kind man and a good friend, Somehow I always knew you would die, you had the mark of a man that would not make it.