Keep soldiering on.Like you've done all your life,
Since you went away and had all those adventures,
you took yourself and her beyond beaches, beyond trenches,
Beyond life: we have it.
You commandeered a life of ours,
steered and sailed into the harbour,
set down a diamond anchor.
I can never properly thank you,
for the life you gave her.
The love you had; the songs you sang,
Must have drowned out the bang, bang bang
in your ears.
Over the years, you wound around
and never made a single sound about the
stamps of feet underneath or above that have taken
your little love and mine.
We won't be fine but at least
we have your strength and your skill
your incredible strong will.
you've had your fill
and until
you feel like you can take no more
I can offer you something, an overture.
I can do her voice, and can conjure her up.
Diamonds and silver and resin and ashes.
Bodily things that we can't feel.
My love for you is an atom bomb of real.
You're a strength.
So we've gone AWOL for a while, but like a true soldier
you'll emerge and soldier on.
Even though the thing you're fighting for is gone,
continue, find a new one: me maybe?
Everyone needs a soldier to protect them.
Everyone accepts help if they need it.
Everyone is an empty flag awaiting an emblem,
A soldier who wishes it was only war he has to revisit.
