The Soldier's One Way Road

As the shadow that was once his soul,
Walks down the narrow, one way road,
Her eyes are full of so many tears,
Her heart full of so many fears,
The war that seemed so far from here,
That war has come too far, too near.

She reaches out and screaming,
"This was never real, just your dreaming!"
He turns to face her, distant and cold,
"There's no turning back on this one way road."

She looked into his crying eyes,
Forced to say his last goodbyes,
He reached out and touched her cheek,
They stared in silence, with no need to speak,
That moment then, should have lasted forever,
Two souls, entwined, so in love, together.

But the voice of war, loomed far away,
"I shall not wait another day."
They both looked up and heard it's call,
She looked at him, destined to fall.

Every moment felt like a year,
Every day she woke, her heart full of fear,
Would she ever receive that letter,
Or would he come and make everything better?
But still the days wore on and on,
When would she know if her love had gone?

As she woke one September morn,
She heard a knocking, sad, forlorn,
She went to answer it's solemn call,
She went to her grave, to finally fall.

The man handed her that fateful letter,
No one would come and make her better,
The man's face was cold and grim,
He looked like death, cloaked in sin,
"I'm sorry" He said, head to the ground,
She fell with a cold and deafening sound.

Is this what we aim for when we fight?
To steal and destroy love's one true light?
In the hands of so few, lie the lives of so many,
In the hands of a millionaire, the fate of a penny,

What does it matter, one man's life?
What does it matter, all the pain and strife?
They say it's only the cries of expendable lives,
Well few have cried for less.