Anxiety peels back my skin
Alone in the crowds of ignorance
Forced to confront the demons…

life feeds me the same indigestible meal
feast on what the rats refuse
drink from the back alley sewers with closed eyes
my war over now the battle begins
so many ways to lose a fight I have seen victory destroy a life
the innocent resting in bed the night came thunderous clouds erased their home
my sentence for service is to live to die each day
do your duty, do your tour, tear apart a foreign nation claim victory and return
live like an animal outside your own skin a prison within
put aside morality your God looks away
see war crimes carried out victory claims the history books
what some call oppression others call a fight for freedom
the defeated all bleed the same but the living remain wounded
my words are the silence others pretend not to hear
homeless and dirty no place comforts us deployment complete
traveled so far to amount to nothing lest we forget is all we remember
not deserving of the dust destiny waits to claim
hero’s medals are reminders no tears left to shed
drown me as I run from the past no land will claim us
we turn our back on society shame and survival guilt
the memory of duty done replayed fallen innocence continuous replay
no peace in our memories only for the ones that don’t remain
honor is too important to give in to defeat
society turns their backs on the ones that make it home

Our Nation

excuse your choices through a prejudice voices
disguised by socially accepted moral compasses
reset by popular demand, trends change at medias command…

Peacekeeper breathe, breathe for the ones that reach their last breath they take it in silence yet they scream, they scream beyond you, you fail to hear them
The children come to you they seek warmth and salvation do you see them their eyes are wide with fear and hardship they look to you with love
Turn away in a hidden shame they will never understand, they are here for all the right reasons they seek what you took, admit it, you ran for new hope, the fight to be immortal
Will you ever meet them with an open hand, offer them shelter and a chance is there acceptance your choice should they gain entry to a land, not yours
Peacekeeper, you are a child on the world stage young, as a nation ignorance and oblivion your excuse caretakers of where you stand, hold out your hand that started as a fist
Your history is a troubled one, deny why it had to be rewritten, do you remember the search for sanctuary, you made the journey hands greeted you did they ever resist
Pride in cultivating culture from distant shores step over the indigenous people’s acceptance to claim all that is not yours, force them to un-arable land crush their spirit because you can
As Peacekeepers judge us not, we build cities of greatness and railroads beneath we see the enslavement of nations by others, dare to reach out to save distant brothers
We take in openly the victims of others, apologetically stand among United Nations war is not our industry yet inhumanity we oppose, the worlds best friend is the role our humility chose
The beauty of four seasons, natural resources freshwater fresh air only some of the reasonsso much to lose because we have a lot, fair trade to the world when the treasures were not
War hero’s created and immortalized, the winner is always right, the masses of poor born for barter, trade, a commodity of self-righteous nations socialized
Romanticize our tragedy in the movies and media no war is civil, drive the justification for genocide, annihilation crime, is any war just, in any God is their trust
Governments we elect follow the direction of corporation’s agendas we didn’t select if they speak for the many why are they on the run
Political correctness and special interest has forever changed opinion and honesty we are forced to live our lives online so no one will know our faces
Remember once we ran for our lives found a new beginning where a new world could survive, exile people that do not conform, our embarrassing truth ignored, shadows of lies we preform
Technology takes over, dark web weaponry, governments secrets fake news, the communist democracy infected nations, gilded crimes unpunishable
Communism is democracies alibi; we are shoulders others stand on we lose our reasons why so far from our intentions how hard did we try
The only good promise is the lies it hides impoverish and control the weak we promise a cultural melting pot the truth is in commerce fairness forgot