A VETERANS CRY

Can you feel our pain, hear our cries?
Look at us please and see the despair in our eyes.
We have worn our uniforms and fought steady and true.
If needed we would have died for you!
We are tired of being stepped on!
Will you remember us when we are gone?
So much taken from us. Do you think we did it all for fun?
All that we have lost, forever gone, legs, arms, fathers and sons.
Why do you not appreciate all that we have sacrificed?
Did we alone have to pay the price?
We believed in all that you promised and all that you said.
How do you feel when you lay down in your soft bed?
We gave you everything we to just be forgotten like this.
We call the streets our home while your home is sweet bliss.
After years of service, faithfulness and risking our lives,
Every time you deny us it feels as though we are being stabbed with a 1000 knives.
To sacrifice so much and ask for so little in return,
Risking our lives for you. Would you please learn,
That we will always be there when you call
No matter what you do or how you act.
We believe in you still all and all.
You, our love, our home, our country.

Written by: Sandala Mulkey.
Dedicated to my Dad and my Husband. My heroes.