Silent

After two years I came home from the war

My family came to meet me at the airport

I hugged them, I kissed them, I held them close

Dinner was great I missed mamma’s cooking

But conversation was hard

I heard what they were doing and what has changed

My sister had her degree

My dad had a new job

My mom was teaching at a new school

On and on life was the same old

They asked about my two years and I was silent

Later that night I went to the bar to have a brew

See my friends and learn to dance again

They bought me my drinks

They were all there nothing had changed

They laughed and joked about the week before

And that time last summer at the lake

They asked me about my time in the sand

I stood silent

I got another beer

I was dreamin asleep in the sand

Of momma’s cooking

Dads work stories at dinner

My sister’s hugs

A beer at the bar

A dance with Lacy

All the same ol stories

The bull at the bar

But that’s the life I left

I am not that man anymore

I know you. You haven’t changed

You don’t know me you can’t understand

So I stand silent

I have fun with all my buddies dressed in green

We tell stories laugh and drink

We work we train we fight

We live together we go to war together

We know each other

We will die for one another

But I go home and

I am silent

Mom and dad, sister and brother

Girlfriend and lover best friends forever

I love you all and always will

But you don’t know me

I go to our reunions

Watch movies and play uno

I go to the bar and drink with my friends

You don’t understand me

You don’t understand

That’s why I am silent