The Bed Made From a Hole In Sand
If we get a few minutes of relief from open fire
To my bed of sand I'll retire
Bullets whizzing over our heads
Makes the safety of the sand bed not a dread
Needing a bath and fresh clean clothes
Well we won't get these today we suppose
Our comrade was killed by mortar fire today
We wept as dying in my arms he lay
Silence is golden so they say
But silence can be scary as hell, where we stay
But this is just one more day
Hoping we live to get away
To home
(Inspired by photos sent to me in an email from a friend. The photo showed soldiers
surrounded by army trucks, jeeps, and tanks in the middle they had dug out beds in the sand.
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