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Then Will Jack Come Home

by Charles M Harrison


When no child wakes and screams
only nightmares are their dreams.
because great towers tumbled
and their innocence was crumbled

When no one prays in fear
for danger may be always near
in a crowd they are not alone
just one second and all are gone

When those of religious hate
who try to control our fate
with fear, horror and dread
are all destroyed and dead

When terror holds no more sway
or controls how we live each day
then there will be no more need
for our brave solders to die and bleed

When no nation holds in any place
or provides support for terrors face
no more will our bravest roam
then will our children come home.

Today 2000 tomorrow more
yes that is the nature of war
fought by the brave who came before
and died on many a foreign shore

Compare to what terror has cost
in blood and death and futures lost
into our hearts those millions stare
and ask why many stood without a care

Then will Jack, Joe and John
Jennifer, Melissa and Shaun
be given thanks that they deserve
by the nation they chose to serve.

Count the cost, then we will
of the ones who’s blood did spill
and hope that it is the last
that the season for war has past

Know we then with backward site
that what was done was done for right
to bring an end once and forever
to any and all of terrors endeavor.

07/09/2006

Author's Note: This is a response to the poem How Many Mikes? by Maria Stefanic

Posted on 07/10/2006
Copyright © 2024 Charles M Harrison

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 05/23/09 at 07:31 PM

As long as there is Evil in this world, there will be those to do its bidding! Thus you speak hopefully but realistically.

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