I Have Seen

I have seen the soldier wounded and dead

I have seen the blood fresh and flowing red

I have seen the bullets close as they fly

Hitting and missing as they go by

I have seen the joy and the sadness

I have seen the dark eyes of loneliness

I have seen the soldiers' fearful eyes

I have seen the wounded as he cries

I have seen the enemy close at hand

I have seen the ruin throughout the land

Yes, I have been to the land of war

I have stood with a brother at deaths door

I have held and fired a gun

I have taken the life of someone

I have walked through the lands so muddy

I have done it alone and with a buddy

I have felt the sun boiling hot

And I have smelled the stench of the rot

I have died inside again and again

I have been where many have not been

I have seen what others have not

I have memories I wish I'd forgot

I've lived on into the by and by

It was not my time yet to die

But while my body continues to fight

My mind escapes forever into the night