Dreams of America VII: Semper Fi

Scott came home, he paid his dues;
A country served, a hero true.
His pretty wife, boys four and two,
greeted him; his life anew.

Innocent, he left to fight,
For God and Country, as was right.
Now at home, kept out of sight,
The harrowed dreams, release at night.

His wife knows well, disturbance dwells,
But never will he share and tell.
The pain he carries often wells,
He must protect them from his hell.

Scott knows that she can’t understand,
What he saw in foreign land.
Her world untarnished, it must stand,
Free from impact of the sand.

There’s more than what you could conceive,
That is paid for liberty,
Unspoken, pained, our soldiers see,
That truly, you are always free.


by Rodney Alan Crater
Copyright ©2007 Rodney Alan Crater