Listen
Listen
Listen to the distant drums.
Listen to the bugles calls.
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While you were gone, I sat around and was not sure of what to do.
You were my life, my soul and with you, here I had control.
I never thought that I would be left on my own.
Even though, I know it's not long before you return home....
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Bonded together
Never broken
Rusted, yes
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The night slowly creeping in
The American Flag waving high
The shots still ringing out
The stampede still pushing on...
Please Daddy don't go so soon,
The thought of it makes me swoon.
I cry and cry and that's NO lie.
...
Dad,
Are you coming back?
You have been gone a long time.
I got a letter today that says I'm going to care,...
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A warm tear runs down her face,
As she looks into the eyes of the one she loves.
A son swelled with pride,...
Behold the aging soldier. He's grown longer in the tooth.
He wears the scars of battle that had squandered all his youth.
Although his war has ended, he finds much to his dismay.
The demons that now haunt him just don't seem to go away.
When we married who would have thought of the changes in our lives.
We were married one year, one month to the day when I made you a Marine Wife.
Things were tough, we had only been married a year.
A young boy playing games of war,
His imaginings filled with innocence, unaware of reality's horror.
He heard a voice filled with cadences being sung like hymns,