GOOD-BYE DARKNESS

Dead soldiers never suffer
after once they have died...
nor do they ever cry again
since that final day they cried...

Not the same for those vets
who suffered but did not die...
and they'll never cry again
after they in the cemetery lie...

Good-bye darkness,
Farewell Mother Earth...
for my next stop is Heaven
since I've had a second birth...

©Copyright February 16, 2004 by C. Douglas Caffey