Wick3dW3nch FOB TMaxx5's blog: "poems I wrote many yrs ago"

I couldn't turn my back onyou

I had t be a man

So I left to serve my country

Survive the best I can.

Now here I sit in a rice field

Trying to stay alive

A NV camp close to our sights

A stranger at my side.

     Yet not a stranger at all!

Whether his hair is black, yellow or brown

His eyes are green or blue

Whether his skin is black or white

He's just like me and you!

He finds no rhyme or reason

He fights the fears inside

He wishes he were home again

and thinks of those who've died,

Yet I don't know his name or where he's from

But I know his joys and his strife

For a bond exists between us

We value each other's life!

We step once more in the underbrush

Into a burning lit sky I fly

And far below me I hear a sound....

"Why God why"

Yes, why God, why?

I sit and watch our troops come home

my chest swells so with pride

and as I watch the glorious sight

the tears roll down my eyes,

I cry for the ones that never came home

the one's still missing and held

their names on a wall for remembrence

the rest an empty shell.

what happened too the glory for those who came back?

when was their shing day? 

they went to save democracy

with a terrible price to pay.

No one owns up to what they have done

Not their government, their people-they're alone

Yet they fought the longest battle of all

with no one to welcome them home.

Welcome home VietNam vet

Thanks for a job well doen!!

Living and Dying with AIDS

I cried out, but you never heart

I looked for you, but never a word

The fear inside took you away

I face it alone, day afrer day.

I haven't changed, I'm still me

But past your fear you just can't see.

my life is ebbing, I need you near

My heart cries out-why can't you hear?

I need to laugh, to cry, to smile

Need friends around me all the while.

I'm dying, you see, can't face it alone

I need a place that I can call home.

I'm still your son, your daughter, your friend

Please stick by me until the end!

Don't pretend I don't exist

Then when I'm gone, pretend I'm mised.

Show me your love while there is still light

Time to forget who's wrong or who's right

Not much time left,,,don't you see?

Show me love..please stand by me!