Take a walk in my shoes.
Experience one day in my life.
See the anguish, the exhaustion,
The terror, the strife.

I wake up in

The Duty of a Soldier's Wife

I salute our flag
With my oven Mit
Changing diapers to the sound
Of freedom's wit
Serving my country
Proud

Here inside this body
Lives a ME that no one knows
A ME that's hard to understand
A ME I haven't chose

To be bitter and misgiving
Is

The world on my shoulders, a smile on my face
The girl in the mirror is hard to embrace
I'm a mother of three, yet I tend

A day in my life
A sky of often-grey
A never-lifting cloud
An endless fall of rain

A bout of shining sun
Playing peek-a-boo
Between