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lakers
11-11-02, 02:26 PM
When you ask me questions
that I seems like I ignore
it’s because it’s just to painful
to talk about the war.
I know you don’t understand
and you never will
the pictures locked within my mind
and in my heart still
Unless you were with me
and saw what I still see
you can never know
how devastating war can be
You do whatever you have to
in hopes you’ll stay alive
to see another dawn break
in bomber-laden skies
I’m not ashamed of what I did
nor will I ever be
because when my country called
I answered and didn’t flee
but what I did and saw
haunts me everyday
no matter how very hard I try
to keep them at bay
so when you ask me questions
and I seem so far away
it’s because it’s coming back to me
as if it were yesterday
I honestly can’t talk to you
the memories I can’t share
unless I’m with my comrades
who were also there
because they know just how I feel
and feel the same as I do
So when I break down in tears
there’s no confusion in their eyes
just the heart-deep understanding
of a soldier’s ties
When you ask me questions
that it seems like I ignore
it’s because it’s just to painful
to talk about the war.