Singing for Her Brother
For My Cousins Joyce and Dusty Massie
My cousin Joyce was up on that stage singing,
So beautiful and so strong—
My secret heroine through school…
Turning pale, lips quivering…
But her head held high
As she sang the song
For the Green Berets.
Dusty was over there,
That place where many went,
Few seemed to return…
That place that protestors scorned
And politicians lied for…
Oh may our kin not die for!
© Copyright, Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw, 2000.
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