HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A ROBIN WEEP?

The song said don't stop thinking about tomorrow,
tomorrow will be better than before; yesterday's
gone, yesterday's gone. If the singers only knew
that yesterday will never go away...
yesterday can never go away.

The song asked if you ever saw a robin weep when
leaves begin to die, and said that means he's lost
the will to live. I ask if you ever saw your friends
die and if you did, do the tears ever stop falling, do
you retain the will to live?

I'm so lonesome I could cry.

I remember a young Montagnard soldier and I
shooting small stones at passing ground leeches,
laughing happily together, enjoying our deep
friendship. Then, I remember later in the same day -
when he pushed me to the ground and took the bullet
meant for me.

Should the song say, I'm so lonesome I wanna die?

©Copyright June 20, 2006 by Charles Schwiderski

Awarded: June 23, 2006