Sand In My Eyes
I'm standing in the sand where Jesus stood and taught
This is not his message, nor the world he sought
Lord, I need your blessing to get back home again
But I can't help feeling what I've done is a sin
It's three a.m. out here, but yesterday back home
Is she still there waiting, or does her eye now roam?
Do I fight for freedom, or for freedom to fight
How many wrongs will make what we do here right
The nights are so cold, the days are so hot
I'm living in a land that time has forgot
My enemies all look so much like my friends
This was never how I wanted life to end
We grab our gear to make our patrols once more
Chaplain always sends us all out with a prayer
Humvees with bullet holes covering their doors
The smell of paint and death permeates the air
Is that a Bedouin beggar I see here?
Or a young boy with a bomb in hand?
I hate seeing the eyes that show people's fear.
I close my eyes and dream of my land.
Between life and death lies a very thin line
There's no way to tell when it's your time
There's no way to tell the tears from the sand
For certain when you die in another man's land
What's on my face may look like tears
But you know that's just a lie
Soldiers don't show pain or fear
It's just the sand in my eyes
About this poem
A soldier contemplates his life.
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Written on April 18, 2014
Submitted by lubigibbons on January 09, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,305 |
Words | 317 |
Stanzas | 28 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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