She's Gone To War-A Kiss,Life,Gift-
She's gone to war
and will never come home,
she carries a gift with her
and holds it close to her heart.
She remembers a kiss
she received from her husband,
the same day she had to leave
they had tears in their eyes.
She left behind a child
of only three years old,
she carries this gift around with her
everywhere she goes.
Bullets fly past her head
she finds a trench to jump in,
soldiers fall alongside her
she can't feel anything for them now.
This is the life she was put into
it wasn't meant to be this way,
she wanted to be back at home
looking after her family.
She pulled out the little gift
that she held close to her heart,
it was a tiny gold locket
shaped like a heart, with pictures inside.
She grabbed onto it tightly
and said a little prayer,
wishing to get back home
to get out of the hell she was in.
She opened up the tiny gold locket
looked at the pictures held within it,
a picture of her husband and daughter
tears trickled down her face.
Gunfire surrounded her and her friends
an ambush was about due,
fighting 'neath the hot Summer sun
was something they couldn't take anymore.
The soldiers all stuck together
one by one, they were taken out,
the tiny gold locket remains open
as another soldier goes off to war.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones
Jan.1/2014
This Free Verse, didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted it to. The words in brackets, are challenge words.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones | Year Posted 2015
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