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Poetry by R. C.
Keckler
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A Wounded Warrior
A wounded warrior
Is not always that easy to see
A Wounded warrior
Could walk right before your eyes unseen
A Wounded Warrior
Is not always disfigured like you think
A Wounded Warrior
May have wounds that run really deep
A Wounded Warrior
Can go a lifetime without ever being seen
A Wounded Warrior
Most of you walked right by on the street
A Wounded Warrior
You may have tasted their anger when they speak
A Wounded Warrior
Is one who forever bleeds the blood that goes unseen
A Wounded Warrior
That only another brother could ever see
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/27/10
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Broken Soldiers
There are so, so many of them now
More than eyes can show
Some of those you can see
Others can't be seen with your eyes
For they are broken on the inside
They can see things you'll never believe
Though they look ok on the outside
Others may have limbs missing
Along with other parts gone
They look at these and can only see
What once was what they used to be
Though they may behave just fine
Inside their heads they are dying
A little more with each passing day
Losing more of what they used to be
None of you will ever see
For they are that good at hiding those things
Each day passing more of their hope
Slips away with their will to live another day
Leaving you thinking all is ok
But in real life they are further away
From all of us that are there with them each day
For we can't see them going
We only have the hope
That with our love they'll be ok
Broken Soldiers
Slipping further away
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/09/10
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Daddy Made
Now all of us who are older know
Just how hard it is when you lose
Someone who was close to you
But we never truly understand a child
But more important is the reasoning behind
Why they say the things they do
That to us, seem to come out from the blue
A young family, mother, father, and child
They have a great love for one another
Always together as much
As a family could these days
That Father was also a soldier
It was the career they had chosen
Knowing all too real just how things could go
But they truly believe this was to be
The child was a very young boy
5 to 8 or so years old
Now this was about the third time
His father had to go over once more
So this was nothing new to any of them you see
But this time things had
A different ending than those before
This time in the way Daddy was to come home
So with child in hand mother went
To be there when the plane landed
Now for the first time the boy didn't quite
Understand why everyone was crying
Though they had cried before this was different
So as they stood there waiting
For the plane to come in
The skies went from blue
To dark clouds full of heavy, heavy rain
That just seemed to let loose
As they landed the plane
Touched that very ground
To where they all waited
For us daddy to arrive
As the plane came to its stop
There were those brother soldiers
All in their dress blues
Standing ever so sharp and straight
All steps matched, not one missed in any way
Into the plane, then they came carrying
Off in the same matching steps all the way
For everyone they took
The harder his mother cried
The harder was the falling rain
That was when the little boy said to his mother
Look Mommy what daddy just did
Confused the mother just looked
Down at her child
What did you say just now
The little man never missed a beat
Looked up at her as these words
Were what he said
Look mommy what daddy did
What was that my son she said
Daddy Made
All the Angels cry
To hide those tears
That everyone is crying
Isn't that just like him Mommy
Doing this for everybody
Can't you see him
Standing there with his big smile
With both arms reaching out
To take us into his arms
Good to have Daddy home now
Forever to look out over us
Never to leave us alone again
That is what Daddies are for
The whole time he was saying these things
He stood ever so straight, eyes forward
Looking at those brothers
Carrying that box with his father in
Covered with our Country's flag
Holding his mothers hand
Harder than he ever had before
That made her cry even more
Hearing her sons words
Like she had never heard him speak before
As the took his Daddy home
From his very last War
Isn't that what daddies are for
To keep the peace in our world
Daddy Made
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/27/10
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Memory Of A Son
When he first came into this world
His mother and I were so happy
He and our other children
We watched them grow as time would go
Then our one son came home
Telling us of where he wanted to go
Leaving us so proud
To see our son become
One of our countries soldiers
All was going along just fine
Till he came home that last time
He said he was going off to War
We said those things a parent
Would tell any of their children
Then that was the last time we ever saw him
To this very day we still know nothing
Only that he had gone missing
Not knowing if he was a POW
Just that he is MIA till this very day
All of those years gone by
Gone along with my wife
Now it's just my children and I
All but that one loving son
Who a long time ago went gone
Leaving our family a
Memory Of A Son
Who went to War and never came home
A memory is all we have to hold
We miss and love him so
Written By
R.C.Keckler
03/07/10
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Pappy Tell Me
Here I sit in my old chair
Grandma out in her kitchen
This is where you can find us
Every time you come here
This is where we'll be
Here comes our grandson
Just running as hard as
He can and jumps up on my knee
Hollering out at me
Grandpa tell once again
Of how things used to be
I just love hearing about these things
So here we go again walking
Back over memory lane
He starts out telling him
That there was a time
I was once as little as him
Oh how I remember
Being that young again
Believe it or not doing just the same thing
Always wanting to know how things must have been
When my grandpa was a young man
He told him how things used to look
What the people and places were like
What kind of games they played
As well as how they were entertained
Sometimes sitting by that old radio
Listening to the people on there
Telling stories and we used our minds
To imagine just how it looked
As if we could really be there and see
Or there were those times
We'd be setting on the front porch
Someone would always have a guitar or banjo
Usually on a weekend night
Playing and singing songs
That everyone knew
So they could sing along too
These were a few things we liked to do
We all worked hard taking
Care of everything that needed to be done
Before we lost the light of day
Back then every one helped with everything
After the evening meal everyone
Helped clean things up
So we all could sit down for a break
To be getting rested up
For another day tomorrow
That's just the way things had to be
Not like they are today
You see your grandma out in her kitchen
Can you believe that to me
She is still as beautiful
Even more so today
Than that first time
I had ever seen her
When I look at her I can still see her
As if it was just yesterday
But only with me loving her
More than ever before
She has given so much to taking
Good care of your daddy and me
Over all these years keeping us
As safe as she could
Still does till this very day
As you'll come to see some day
When you get to be as old as me
Like I did when I was at his age
Those very same things
Then sit there and laughed
About getting to be at his age
Thinking that would never be me
Now here it is me and that very day
With my own grandson on my knee
Funny how one can remember all of old things
Of what once was and how we used to think
Then came that same very question
I once asked my grandpa
How did you get to know so many things
About how some would be like today
How do you know I'll be doing
Some of these same things
That those other ones
Like why didn't you just go to the store
To get what you needed
That was when I told him
First one has to live life for some time
To get to understand the how's and whys
And back then we didn't have a store
Just down the road or on the corner
To go running to
The sad part of this all is
That there are things
That he'll never get to have
Or see in his lifetime
Because of the way life is lived these days
Where we were free to run and play
Doors never locked
Kids could go over to another house
Without the fear of someone taking them
Or doing other ugly things
Yards were not fenced in, doors with bars
Or on our windows
These days those things are long gone
Saddened me to see
But not so much to him
Because this is his time
Now that is just how it is
So he'll never really understand
What it is he missed
But as I was once told
This is what life is
Ever changing as those times
We once had got to live
Those were our times
To be telling our grandchildren
Of what once was a life that was lived
So they can see just how change
Has come to their life that they get to live
As my pappy told me and his has told him
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/28/10
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Sorrow Of Ones Self
Right now
This is a disease
That has many in its hold
Sometimes being the killer
Of a family and its home
Putting loved ones
Into the darkness and feeling alone
With them having nowhere or no way to go
So bad that they can't see
What all they truly have to hold
Making them forget those who are important
Who have been there from the start
Down this lonely sorry ass road
When one feels there is nothing left
Forgetting those who love them so
Not being able to realize
Just who is more important in this whole world
Those who are still standing there waiting
For them to let them back in
Once more to tell them
How much they need to
Love and have them to hold
How they need them here in their lives
In this very world
Begging them not to leave them alone
Back here in this life of theirs with
Sorrow Of Ones Self
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/26/10
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Tears Passing By
I have seen you
Sitting off from the others
But when you seen me
You took off running
Then as you went running by
I just got a glimpse
Of them falling from your eyes
As you went somewhere else to hide
So as not to be seen by anyone else
So you could get done letting
Tears Passing By
Then be done with them
Go dry your eyes so others would
Never know you cried
Think that I would not
Be understanding why
You need to have yourself a cry
But believe when I tell you
I too have been there
More than once in my life
Truly do understand why
Time was needed for your tears
To be passing from your eyes
We all have been there
At some time in our lives
Tears Passing By
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/11/09
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We Had The Light
A little too slow
A little too late
For that brother of ours
To have to hold and see
Saddened by that are we
To have not known
Just how bad was he
In need of what we had
To be given for him to get to see
Saddened was a lot of others
Not just us you see
For being too late to have
Given this to him
When he was in so much in need
We Had The Light
For him to be seen
Only a day too late, were we
For now he knows what we had
For him to see
But not soon enough you see
We lost that moment
That we all really needed
Never to be given back
That time gone you see
For both him and us indeed
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/22/10
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Five Sisters
How blessed was my father
To have been the brother
Of those Five Sisters in his life
To come together for him at this time
In his life when he is dying
To take him in to ones home
The others staying with him
Through those nights
So there are at least two there at all times
Seeing to all and every one of his needs
Helping him in each and every way
Bringing a part of his own home
Into theirs to make him
Feel more at peace with where he is
Who without them he may not have found
That peace that he was in need of
To have comfort through his final time
Of his well lived life
Knowing that now he is never alone
Seeing just how much he is loved
Not having any worries
This is truly something to be seen
Just how much each one of them
Is truly willing to give
Seeing that there is nothing undone
All of this from them with nothing
But heart felt love
For their one brother for so long
Five Sisters
And one Son
Written By
R.C.Keckler
05/21/10
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Because You
I'm here because you brought me
I'm with you because you needed me
I'm praying because you asked me
I'm holding you because we needed to
I'm crying because of what you're showing me
I'm kneeling because of what is seen by me
Two field crosses standing in front of me
One from back when that time was me
The others seen of today's the same as it was for me
Feeling their same pain as others like me
All the very same for them as it was for me
Only on this very day I cry those tears of yesterday
That I couldn't have cried those days that was needed by
me
Because You
Stood beside me
Caring and loving me
I'm the man I needed to be
Written By
R.C.Keckler
08/09/10
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Uniform Of Our Country
Please don't take me wrong here
I don't mean to be of any dishonor
To all of those who have them
Who wear them proudly
I know it's just me misunderstanding
What is inside of them
It must be missing in me
I don't hold any of those
I have earned the right to have
Important enough to display them openly
I myself feel they didn't make me
Any better a soldier
Than any other man or woman there
We all did a job that was asked of us
To the best of what any one of us could do
To see that we didn't let any of our brothers down
To always be there whenever needed
To get done what had to be done
It doesn't matter to me what is on one's uniform
What matters to me is the right to be in one
Uniform Of Our Country
This was what held my honor
Not what they could put on it
Just that right
To be standing in one
That is my pride
Written By
R.C.Keckler
03/28/10
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Believe In Angels
Do you believe
In angels anymore
Or are they
Just fairy tails
Or just a story
For telling children
And nothing more
Is this all
They are good
For
Don't you believe
There are angels
Here anymore
What comforts you
In times of need
And eases the pain
Who holds your hand
When no one's around
But the stars
And the night sounds
Who is it that
Catches your tears
As they run down
How is it
The tears stop
And a smile turns to
Replace that frown
If the angels
Weren't there to
Turn your world
Around
Written by
R.C.Keckler
2/15/03
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Cemetery Rose
You ask me one time how much I love you and for how
long
At that time I didn't have an answer for you, now I do
It's not that I didn't think I could love for a long, long
time
It's that I didn't know how to tell you the amount of
time
That was until now that is, until now
The love I have for you will last long past your time in
life
Well into your afterlife and beyond
For you see, the love that I have for you will be
forever
What I feel for you inside goes beyond all time
It's like the petals falling of a rose
They take a long time to float down to the ground
If you go before me I promise to bring to you a rose
One for the first 30 days, then I'll bring one
To lie at your side for every year that goes by
For the rest of my life
I will my love bring to your side a
Cemetery Rose
For my love for life
Remembering you in some way
Every day in this life of mine
That's how long
My Love
My Life
My Wife
Always with a
Cemetery Rose
For
Solitary time
Written By
R.C.Keckler
12/30/04
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Eldon
Sir I can't tell you how much
It meant to me
To have you go along
Giving us your hand
In the spreading of
Your best friend
What those of us
Who were in the military
Call a brother
Who was my father
And spread his ashes
At one of his most
Favorite hunting spots
Over our many years
Together out in the woods
Doing what he loved the most
You sir have given
To us, the wife and me,
Your heart and hand
Over time seeing us through
Doing by him
Your brother and friend
My father
As he had asked of us to be done
That time together up there
Will forever be a moment
To be held through our lifetime
And longer we hope
Thank you
Our brother and friend
For being there for us
Written By
R.C.Keckler
07/04/10
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I See All Of You
Just about every other night
Hear you all laughing
Sometimes so hard we just cry
I remember voices, faces, and smiles
Along with and every time I do
I feel this warmth deep down inside
For what you all have done
To see that me and others stayed alive
I can't think of you without feeling
Your hands touching me inside
Only now that I'm older can I
Cry those tears when you all lost your lives
Those that back then none of us could cry
We all had hope and
All of you had dreams
Those were lost that day with your lives
Leaving those who were living
Only to be wondering how or why
With nothing left to do
But see that all you are to be remembered
By others long after our own times in life
What and why lives were given
Because we all believed in our way of life
Trying to keep our Country the land of the free
Like our forefathers dreamed we should be
I See All Of You
In the heart and mind of me
Written By
R.C.Keckler
08/10/10
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My Heart Is Saddened
Yes it is very much so
My soul always heavy
From the words of
Another brother who has
Fallen down to the big C
This is far way too many now
Not just for me but all my
Other brothers as well
It hurts so much
That I have no more tears to cry
It leaves me feeling
As thou a big part of
Me has up and died
Way to many of us
Are passing away
With each and every passing day
Right now I don't know
What to do let alone
What or where to find
Those words I want to say
To be make some us
Feel a little better
Some how or way
No tears just this pain
Along with that feeling
Of helplessness that
Is eating me away
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/28/11
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Awaits
So many of my brothers
Are slowly falling to the wayside
Leaving us to wonder how soon
Till it becomes our time
We will become fallen to
That beast that waits off to the side
Just waiting to come forth
To bring us down also
As we have seen it happen way to many times
We see it awaits for us all
Also knowing that it will get us
When it wants it to be our time
But it's not the hell
It can bring to us
That we worry so much about
But the hell it's going to bring
To our loved ones
Wives, families and all
To have to be there at our sides
Seeing the beast
Eating us up from within side
Knowing there is nothing
We or they can do
But watch us slowly die
With each day that pass us by
Till there is nothing left
Of what was us at one time
More and more taken
Less and less life left
As life and time fades away
Slowly till we're out of time
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/03/11
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Those Who Have Been
In those boots where death has lived
Seen it, touched it about everyday
Sleep with it all through out the nights
Tasted it in the food they ate
In the air that they breathe
Felt it in the bodies of those who died
As their lives slipped away
To a lifeless body limp in their arms
Just before letting go to lay them down
Those feelings and memories
Of their life times
We seem to be never letting them go
Deep in their minds we will forever be holding on
No matter where they try to hide or go
Those memories are forever burned into their souls
Their only hope is in knowing
With each passing day is another
Day in that life they will never again hold
These days in this world from here on
Have now started grown shorter
With each year they have grown older
Is one more less for them have to go
Through another knowing that their peace
Is now growing ever so closer then before
But remember only this if nothing more
Remember those who died for them to come home
Pray everyday that others will pass their names on
For what was given for us all
To live this life that we love
Written By
R.C.Keckler
12/25/10
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Sits By His Side
Each and everyday she is
At his side to see to his needs
She watches a little bit more
Of him slipping away
Both through the nights and days
She sees more of him go away
As hard as this is to see
She knows he needs her more
Now then he ever did
Because there is less that
He can do for himself
For every passing day
He grows weaker
As time is passing away
So here she is
Sitting By His Side
For better or worst
Just like those words
They both had said
Back on their wedding day
To love an honor
Till death do us part
She has kept her word
From her heart that was said
Still loving him more
As more of him slips away
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/16/11
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Their Smile
This is for those who are
The ones who fix
Everything to make things right
When that some one whom
Is close to your heart or you
Has fallen down
And you know there is
Nothing you can do
But pray that they don't have
To much pain for them to go through
Each and every time you start
To take that long hard ride
To wherever they are at the time
Your mind is just thinking
Those words you dare not say out loud
But in heart you're praying ever so hard
That their time does drag them through
All those things you seen others go through
These are the things on your mind
All the way during your ride
Doing your very best
To try and find that something
To bring to your face a smile
For the time your with them today
Trying ever so hard not be thinking
About going through this tomorrow
Leaving your heart full with sorrow
Hiding your tears away
So that no one can see
Just how hard you're trying to be
The very best that one could be
Feeling all those things inside hoping
That no one can see
Then when you walk into their room
Try as hard as you might not to cry
Then you see it in their eyes
Just how hard they too are trying
Not to be making you cry
Fighting as hard as one could ever do
They put on just for you
Their Smile
On their face just to show you
They know just how hard it is
On each and every one of you
Their hearts hurt not for themselves
Their hearts are hurting just for you
To be coming here to be with them
Every day that you do
This is what love can do
Their tears are just for you
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/04/11
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Just One Rose
Will put a smile on her face
Will put that light in her eyes
Brighten up her sad day
Put some joy back in to her heart
Tell her how beautiful she really is
Shows her she's always on your mind
Eases away some of her pain
Tells her I love you better
Than any words can say
If it's given to her just out of the blue
Makes for her a very special day
Funny isn't it just how easy
Things in everyday life can be
With you give to her one of these
Just One Rose
Will give to her that little something
In her life that she needs
Putting back some meaning
Back into her everyday life that she lives
Shows her more love then words could give
I know my love is every bit worth this
Just for me to see
That light in her eyes
That only it could give
Just One Rose
That is all it is
Man what all it can give
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/05/11
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Shadow Of Tears
In my heart I do believe its time that we
Get to cry all those tears
That we could not cry way back when
We most defiantly needed them
But back then there was just no time
Other things had to be taken care
So for all those years they just got pushed aside
From that time on we had found other reasons
For us not to let those tears fall from the eyes
But as we all came to know over time
Time gets it done no matter what we say or do
It just has it way of getting those things
Out of our lives that it needs to be paid
So now that its soldiers have grown old
Left with only memories of those yesterdays
Those stories to be told of our back in the days
When we were the soldiers in arms
To this day we remember all of those
Who never got to come back home
In our memories we hold true honor
For each and every one them
Now we are setting off in a corner
Hiding in our minds where no others can see us in
Our Shadow Of Tears
Those we could not cry for when we needed to
most
All alone in our rooms without no one else around
Just us with tears flowing down our faces
All those tears we wanted to let go
From so long ago
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/01/11
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With Footsteps
Ever so softly walking
Through the dark of night
Dark enough that one can just see
That little bit of a outline
Of some one coming ever so close
About that time you catch the scent
Of her perfume as she gets nearer to you
All of this out under the darkness
Of the warm summer nights sky
At that very moment you lost
Whatever it was your thoughts was on
Nothing is on your mind but holding her
Ever so close in and tenderly in your arms
Lightly your two lips meet in a loving kiss
Listening to nothing more
Then both of you breathing
Feeling the warmth of the nights cool breeze
Flowing softly over the both of you
With thoughts of nothing more than how
You both don't want for this moment
To never come to its end
Just like that love your now holding
With Footsteps
That started this moment
They will bring it to it end
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/08/11
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Heat Of Battle
As sick as it may sound
But it is surely true with me
I miss being there more and more everyday
I can remember it as if it were just yesterday
I liked not having to think just react
To whatever was happening at that time of day
Some of it was like slow motion the whole time
No sounds just a foggy vision of what had to be done
Hearing only this little voice inside my mind
Telling me what had to be done right at that time
Like my body was a robot set in motion
Doing what needed to be done to come out on the other
side
No fear about dying or anything at that time
Just that feeling of peace of mind
A very calmness deep inside
Knowing that all was going to be all right
Not till it was over did I have any emotion
About what just happened
After it was over and standing there
Looking all about at what had happened
Who was still standing and who was not
But still like that robot I done
What was needed of me
Then moved on to something else
Like everything was all right
Showing no emotions at any time
Though I may not have looked it
I never have felt so much alive
As I was during those times
Written By
R.C.Keckler
01/31/11
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I'm Thankful
John Eklund
As bad as it my sound
I am truly thankful
For how fast God took you
Into His very hands
Away from this land
Away from the pain
As the Country song goes
I'm not crying for you
I'm crying for me
For God set your soul free
There is just no way
Or easy words to say
What we all have gotten
From having this time in life
To be shared with others
All those good things
In life we gotten to have done
With and by the side of you
For me that one thing most of all
Is just how easy you could
Make others as well as me smile
You my friend were
That light in our lives
Each and every day
We had to spend in life with you
Always leaving us with that
Very big smile of our face
For that our brother
Let us just say thanks
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/28/11
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It Doesn't Hurt Any
Less
Thou I am thankful for Gods grace
In taking him so fast
Because I know He blessed him
In making his pain a very short time
It don't make it any easier
For our pains of his loss
No matter how many times
That we have to go through
Losing brothers, families and friends
It still pains us in the end
Thou in our hearts
We all know that
This was for the best
Some of us have been there
Many a times before
When the times have been
Longer as well as short
Watching what some have gone through
As well as their family and friends
Some can stand there with them
Seeing them through that whole damn ride
But there are others who just can't take it
An that's ok for them not stay
Those who are dying understand
Way better than most do that can or can't
Either way they know their in your thoughts
Then in the end it makes everything alright
Because they loved you too
No matter what you do
Their thoughts are more on
How it is your doing then themselves
All out their love for us all
It Doesn't Hurt Any Less
If you were there or not when they have
gone
Only that they were in your heart
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/28/11
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The Light
Setting here with you in the night
Thou there are others around
Music playing in the foreground
With all looking at
Those who are playing
Some singing along to
Those words in the songs
With lights thou out
The those a around
Along with a big bonfire for
Warmth in the cool of the night
While all of this is going on
I find myself setting here by your side
Looking at all the emotion
On your face
All most like a motion picture
As the light is dancing with the shadows
Off the side of your face in the night
My what a beautiful sight
To be here with you
Seeing this on this wonderful night
For I can't see no one else
Nor can I hear anything else
But you setting here at my side
With all your beauty flashing
In the night by
The Light
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/23/11
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Finding Them Gone
Seems to be what I am here for on this Earth
When they decide that time is done or it coming to its
end
I'm either there with them or the one to find them
After things are done in hopes of taking care of them
Either way it's harder and harder for me to understand
Along with taking its toll of my inner soul that is left
inside of me
Making it so hard to make their wishes come out right
But some times it not up to me decide
The law takes that out of these hands of mine
Leaving me only standing here saying how sorry am I
That I can't do what I had said this time
That is mine to carry deep inside
Forever remembering them for the good times
Not so much as they were seen that very last time
That is forever in my mind
I am told that GOD only put on you what he knows
You can handle for those times
And if this is right leaving me with that question
Why
But that answer is not to be mine
For it went with them at those times
I was just the one they had chosen
To be there for them in their minds
For me this is going to have be alright
That they though enough of me
To be that one for them in their life
This is my only answer as to what for or why
So be it and because I loved them in life
For they were my friends and brothers
I was the one there for them in those times
For my brother's keeper am I
Mine was not to reason why
Mine was to be by their sides
Written By
R.C.Keckler
11/17/09
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The Eyes See
But not what is in front of me
My mind goes off to other times
Places that have been longtime gone
Seeing those things that have once been
Those young old faces
That is longtime gone
Every now and then hearing
Their voices once again
Remembering just how it had been
Those last times they were alive
Right up till that very time we had lost them
Along with all those others
When life came to its end
It matters not where I am
Nor who I'm with or doing
My eyes just go off staring
Into nowhere land
Thou the body is here
Everything else is off and gone
Leaving a body with no one home
For once again I am gone
And back to the one place
That I feel that I belong
With those who are my brothers
Along with myself lost in
The truly one place we feel at home
The Eyes See
Then I am gone
Written By
R.C.Keckler
02/13/11
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Within The Darkness
I set within the darkness
From our bunker
With all our openings closed
Off so's not to show any kind of light
From the light of a very small candle
Flickering all about inside
Like it was jumping from one side to the other
I set trying to find the right words
To tell all of you out there
What and just how we feel inside
That one letter we are to be carrying
With us each time we go outside the wire
So if there was that something to happen
Those of you back in the real world
Would have that something from us
Telling all of you our thoughts
For the very last time
So here I set trying to write mine
Honestly I have no idea
As to what to say or write
For I know just how hard all of you
Would truly try to understand why
Let alone what this place is really like
When I'm here and still have no answers
To that question what it is really like
When it is something none of us
Have ever seen in our lives
Nor can we understand who is to die
When we were setting right there by their side
That very next moment their gone
Laying there torn all apart
There we set hurting but nothing like them
Know right at this very moment we have to
Get ourselves back together to defend
What is left of what we once were
You know just before this place
Blew us apart not only on the outside
But killed us in our hearts and minds
But still we have this duty to both
Those still living along with those who died
Trying our damnedest to get them back
By whatever means that are on our side
So that those lost that day
Families have something to claim
With their dog tags and our Country flag
For we know if it were us
They would be doing that same thing
For those who loved us before we died
So now maybe you all can see
Just why I'm having such a hard time
Finding those words to write
Knowing that there is just no real answers
As to how there is a who and why
Some of us will live others they'll die
But still they tell us
We all most set down and write
So if you get this one of mine
You now know what was on my mind
Written By
R.C.Keckler
03/05/11
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