Sent into the jungle to do some scouting
Haunting echoes of gunfire and screaming
I reached out to take my best friends hand
His blood saturating a foreign countries land
No songs were sung, no scriptures read
My comrade in arms, now lying dead
A grown man hung his head and cried
The day I watched my best friend die
My soul was forever lost this day
My spirit for life forever, taken away
We killed the enemy, with the innocent
Comforting a boy, his life nearly spent
A child trying to stop another child's bleeding
My tears fell, at his intermittent breathing
Placed in harms way, this wasn’t his fight
As I held him tightly throughout the night
Life ebbing away, his head against my chest
A merciful God, allowing him eternal rest
No songs were sung, no scriptures read
My enemies son, now lying dead
A grown man hung his head and cried
Screaming at God, as I wondered why
My soul was forever lost this day
My spirit for life forever, taken away
