Flashback to Mekong: The War in Viet Nam
For Dustin Massie, Daniel Massie, David Massie,
Wayne Massie, and James Delong, My Cousins Who
All served willingly and honorably
And still the evil fought through lives
In minds and bodies all tattered
With memories of a limb or an ear
Or a child blown up and scattered.
Flashback to the now of the time when we hid
From the nightmare of still living
With a best friend’s right arm,
All that was left, of the life he was giving…
For a country who hated us…
In a country who hated us…
No reprieve.
Nineteen years old and proud of this land
Of our birth, our family, and teaching,
Many were drafted, so they couldn’t say no,
Regardless of the masses loud screeching.
War heroes, yeah right, stoned out of our minds
Blinding to terrors more real
Than any horror king knows,
And in our souls they live with us still…
For a country who hated us…
In a country who hated us…
No reprieve.
© Copyright, Daphne Yvonne Bradshaw, 2000.
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