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brazil 2009

Beyond the Battlefield

We killed them, every single one
We took them out before the fight begun
They want equality, we want freedom
But now the rules are made
As you can see we’ve won!


In victory we seized, for the right we all desire
And it only took a bullet from my gun to fire
We strategized from day till night but did not grow tire
For our eyes were focused on that which we knew was much higher


Now we can return home in peace and harmony
My heart is overcome with glee
For my family I can’t wait to see!


With a song in my heart and a newness in my feet
I spin around, unprepared for what my eyes now meet.
I try to look away but my heart won’t let go
There’s sorrow in her eyes and it only seems to grow


Kneeled on the ground by a soon-to-be mother
Is covered in blood, the baby’s heroic father


But this cannot be, not that which my eyes now see
For just a moment ago, that was the enemy!


I turn around ashamed and in utter disbelief
This was my victory, my heart should feel relief.
I’ll forget the moment, indeed that’s what I do
But as I try to leave the scene, I find my feet won’t move.


I lay down my guns and to them I come near
She, now a single mom, is gripped with fear
I cannot comfort her as we have a speech barrier
But we share this in common; my eyes now hold a tear.


Sitting side by side in the bloody stained red field
I come face to face with the father I just killed


But then I experience something I never thought I’d feel
Weeping together as one,
We have moved beyond the battlefield


And in desperation, maybe all vain
I give her a hug and try to ease her pain


I get up even slower then when I first came
And leave with a good-bye
Knowing life will never be the same again.



-December 2008

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