Memorial Day 

To every fallen hero of war.
I pray your cause was just.
May each and every spirit soar.
As we say in God we trust.

I pray your efforts were rewarded.
All your intentions were addressed.
I hope your battles were recorded.
And you knew you were blessed.

Good and evil are two sides of every coin.
We make the best decisions that we can.
Perhaps it was your intention to join.
Maybe drafted into someone else's plan.

Though you didn't see it as your demise.
And had every reason to survive.
Let there be no surprise.
For heaven's gate could hardly wait for you to arrive.

I can't swear that the world is in a better place.
Or that one life could make it great again.
But something is better in any case.
Everything changes now and then.

Some were killed in action.
Too many were never found.
That split second distraction.
Or a friendly fire round.

And to those that died under false flags.
Sacrificed like sheep for the greater good.
Nothing official, service patch, or dog tags.
God blessed whether or not they understood.

For all the suicides that couldn't handle being used.
Usually more than were killed in any given war.
Life has many ways of being abused.
The homeless were always too many more.

They have buried so much ordure under the stars and stripes.
That I do not have a flag large enough to hide my shame.
Pointing fingers at political puppet butt wipes.
While the broken system remains the same.

Patriotism or patriot, it's time to make up your mind.
We try to do right because wrong is a crime.
Hear no, see no, speak no evil, you must be blind.
Stairway to heaven and a highway to hell, let's climb.

The best we can do for our fallen heroes.
Is to learn from the mistakes we have made.
War gives the rich way too many zeros.
When we are the price that is paid.

Freedom can never be taken for granted.
Freedom of speech but not to be heard?
Too many are stranded and disenchanted.
While our reality has become absurd.

If you are waiting for enough to be enough.
Or for somebody else to step out of line.
It's past time for the rough to get tough.
It's time for the citizens to combine.

The dead have done whatever they could.
Battle is not over, make their efforts count.
It's time to finish by doing what we should.
Freedom is never free, it's time to surmount.

They said freedom is what these wars were for.
Freedom is something our children will never know.
Cashless society and complete control is in store.
And flagged IDs will have nowhere else to go.

If the flag is a curtain that blinds you.
If Patriotism keeps your head in the sand.
Become the red, white. and blue.
Wake up, standup and demand.

Love, Light. & Liberty, JimRaab