a good friend of mine just died in an army hospital in germany and all she could tell me about before she died was the horrible nightmares she was having while awake. the screaming and the crying, the morphine shots to try and make her sleep. . . .she is the second person i know that has died in this war. . . .at least he died instantly. . . . ..
Warm me with your pity
And soothe me in your thoughts
Rinse me in waves of savage blood
And rub out these battlefield memories
In nights of silent agony
I have been waiting for the echo
Of a thousand injured soldiers
And a thousand dying children
Hours of darkness
Hours of light
Spent mourning the faceless
And killing the named
Wrap your wings around
Saint of the fallen proud
Come remind me of living
And wash away the dead.
Warm me with your pity
And soothe me in your thoughts
Rinse me in waves of savage blood
And rub out these battlefield memories
In nights of silent agony
I have been waiting for the echo
Of a thousand injured soldiers
And a thousand dying children
Hours of darkness
Hours of light
Spent mourning the faceless
And killing the named
Wrap your wings around
Saint of the fallen proud
Come remind me of living
And wash away the dead.

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I went, I fought, the damage was done. I truly wonder which of us is luckier?
I am so sorry for your losses. I wish that none of us would ever have to fight again.