The strongest of anti-war songs with just cause.
If bones could write
an epitaph,
oh, how coffins
would rattle in despair
Arlington would be
a cacophony
of calcium
rapping out in
remorse code
the pain of dying
oh, so young.
Micheal's bones
cast like a meteor
from his unfulfilled dreams
lying dormant
in the wreckage
of 28 years
far more time than
he had lived......
Reverently dugout
and boxed with fervor
then cradled in a flag
and brought home
Oh, how his spirit
must have ached
for the soil of his birth
from that stench of
that vegetative matter
in the spoils of Cambodia
after a forbidden incursion
that took his very soul
What poetry his
bones could write
what utter despair
penned in blood
at his heroic last stand
(Fighter Jet crash)
Long forgotten songs
that his lips will never sing.
he'll echo in the hearts
of those who loved him
and somewhere
his guitar still waits
soundhole in a fixed scream
of silence far too long........
If bones could write
an epitaph,
oh, how coffins
would rattle in despair
Arlington would be
a cacophony
of calcium
rapping out in
remorse code
endless conclusions
from what remains.
My country is of thee
sweet Land of Liberty
for thee, I bleed.
Art~Whimsically Yours Studio
Matthew Frederick Blowers III--©-2020
Former U.S. Marine
For Michael who finally got home
and all the others who did not!
