Only the soil knows the pain
Since your death 
Nothings been the same

Read your letters every night
Tried To imagine
You in a firefight

And then your letters stopped

They came no more

And then there was the dreaded 
Knock on the door

I won’t answer it
They will just go away
Oh but they will come again
You listen yet you have nothing to say 

Ma’am I’m sorry 
to have to tell you
About your husbands death
He’s now in good hands 
I guarantee you that 

80 years ago when you 
Were just 17
Now at 97 
What did it all mean 

You remarried 
Yet you never forgot
Your first husband
Who died for the cause

And you pray each and every night
That God  will be kind
Let you see your one true love 
It’s only a matter of time ……