Military Poems

A Soldier's Eyes

To look into a soldier's eyes, 

the window to their soul.

Look out from inside their mind and see horrors never told.

You say we are just killers,

it's not that plain you see.

Take a walk inside my boots and see what I have seen.

Many innocent lives taken and soldiers, they were some.

Giving their life freely to get the mission done.

The last cold stare of death, we see in our mates eyes.

They fought for all your freedom, this is why we die.

Some wonder why we fight to protect this nation and maybe lose our life.

Ask this question to a soldier, the answers in their eyes.

Always will we be here waiting, the call we won't deny.

We'll always fight for freedom, never asking why.

We'll go away to far off lands , leaving our loved ones behind.

Many times we die alone, several times inside.

Open windows to our soul, see the tears we hide.

Secrets that we cannot keep are in a soldier's eyes

When you look into a soldiers eyes

you see the images locked deep inside

the torture and hate he has seen

the deaths of friends that have been

the hard decisions he has made

the killing blast of one grenade

the countless men he has killed

the dangerous missions he has fulfilled

the horrific gore the madness of war

the deaths of the innocent, their piercing scream

now you too wont be able to dream

that steely eyed soldier was just a boy

until war took all his joy.

so when you meet a soldier with distant eyes

think of what he has seen and why he wears that disguise

~Unknown