Soldier's Heart

it'll break yours - to see an old man cry lips shaking at the memories legion hats and baseball caps with buttons and pins and medals stuck the soldier talks and tells a tale those past events - didn't turn out so well haunts he's carried most all his life more than the slain, he's burdened with strife and there's some who can't go back before they fought and slew, as soldiers of war so doctors and counselors diagnose and surmise PTSD, shell shock, combat fatigue, or soldier's heart killing is killing no matter the cause and living hearts bleed, as those that died whether enemies, allies, or innocents are killed is still a good reason, to break down and cry mankind - such an interesting notion, that our civilization's men are really kind hand-to-hand or remotely terminating a life it's hard to comprehend we're really that blind bomb-bay doors, M-16s, foxholes, phosphorus fires the children, platoons, felled in murderous quagmire General Sherman said it better than I, "War is hell, good that it be so, least humanity love it too well" © Goode Guy 2012-11-12 http://storycorps.org/?s=Harvey+Hilbert&post_type=post http://www.soldiersheart.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier's_heart