Military Poems

A Letter To A Soldier

I fight for you everyday

For your safety and freedom far, far away

Everyday I fear that it may be my last

Looking at what was important to me in the past

I choose this life, to fight

For your freedom, your eternal right

It gets lonely out in this far distant land

I have nothing but my gun and boots full of sand

I pray to Jesus each and every night

That he may shield me from this next fight

I live each day with fear of death

I never know when it will be my last breath

"Lets Move Out" says my captain

Always worried about what will happen

I get my gear and my gun

I ask myself "How much more, before this is done?"

Bullets and RPG's zooming past my head

I cant help but fear soon I will be dead

Each and every second of life i cherish

Because I never know when I will perish

A sound of gun shots all around

Bodies of young soldiers is all to be found

Bombs shattering the buildings apart

Mirror the pieces that are also my heart

Every dying soldier causes me to tremble

All the soldiers will start to assemble

The greatest gift I can give

Is to lay down my life so someone else may live

All those young men who did not come home

Also left their family and children all alone

I'm here safe and sound

Now with my family on my own ground

I pray for my fellow soldiers everyday

I ask the lord to reward them for what they had to pay

Show mercy to all those who fell

"lord, they have served their time in hell"

I write this letter to you and to all

To tell you about myself and those who answered the call

Together we will get it done, we America....

Are an army of one.

Author: Jared Batchelor

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