Have you ever watched
the 'choppers' in the morn's early light,
and the soldiers, embarking,
getting ready for the fight?
Have you ever watched
these 'choppers' coming in to land,
searching out the ground
below, for enemy at hand?
Have you ever watched
these soldiers, jumping to the ground,
running here and there,
searching for the cover to miss a fatal round?
And have you watched
these soldiers going forward at a run,
just as we played
as children, when we had a wooden gun?
Have you heard the shells
and rounds go whistling overhead,
to look around and see
the soldier next to you is dead?
Have you ever seen the
napalm come tumbling from the sky,
and watch helplessly
young soldiers, just shrivel up and die?
Have you ever watched
the laughter on the children's face,
turn to terror, unable
to lend comfort, to help with an embrace?
Have you seen the aftermath
of battles that you've had,
and stopped to wonder
whether, were we at the time, sane or mad?
Then have to see bodies
of the enemy lay dead,
laid out in lines for
days to show the population and to create,
an awesome dread?
I've seen these things
and so much more ---
I tell you now,
IT'S NOT FUN --- IT'S WAR!