Military Poems

Friends are Forever

My mind is wandering back

To when we were boys

All through our childhood

We shared our toys

We grew up together

Never were we apart

We were like twins

Sharing the same heart

When we left school

We shared the same job

We enlisted in the army

We joined the same mob

We trained side by side

We went through the pain

We grew from boys to men

We would never be the same

Then off to Northern Ireland

Like the three tours before

To protect the vulnerable people

From this mindless civil war

Patrolling the streets of Belfast

Or the countryside of Armagh

We were protecting each other

Never ever straying too far

I still remember that morning

It's implanted in my mind

How did I miss that wire

Why, oh why was I blind

Now after all these years

Each one comes and goes

Never will I forget you

As on your grave I place a rose

  Author: Billy Little