by Marie Garner

Created on: February 25, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

He leaves as a naive boy green with determination
To stand up for the rights of all, and extermination
Of those, whose deepest delight is to desecrate
That which we as humans embrace as consecrate

Months at war erode his youthfulness and fortitude
Weakening and erasing his once unyielding gratitude
For being deployed to shield and serve mankind
The reality of the futility sears his burdened mind

He returns a ripened learned and shaken man
Whose open opinions of war's needlessness he must ban
Lest they erupt volcanically from deep within
And expose the rage that boils incessantly inside of him

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