Survivor's march

Boots on the road they echo so loud

His shadow falls beneath the sky’s shroud

Steel in his heart where love used to grow

Carving a path through the fields of woe

The banners are tattered the songs all gone

A lone bugle calls but the fight lives on

The weight on his back is heavier still

Memories whisper they bend his will

Parade of silence marches alone

Dreams of faces he once had known

Salutes are hollow tears won’t show

A soldier returns with a heart laid low

The sky opens wide but no one cheers

He carries the scars of countless years

The earth beneath him feels foreign strange

Home ain’t the same it’s all rearranged

Rhythms of drills and the engine’s drone

Fill the gaps in his heart of stone

Solitude sings through the twilight’s haze

A soldier once proud now lost in the maze

Parade of silence marches alone

Dreams of faces he once had known

Salutes are hollow tears won’t show

A soldier returns with a heart laid low