The Veteran - Memoriam

None can see the horror I have seen

None can feel this emptiness I feel

The veteran

None can hear the screams I hear

None can wash away the blood and tears

In the line of duty

Deep in harm’s way

Psychologically scarred

The price you have paid

Transition civilian life

No one understands

Unable to integrate

No future, no plans

Sleeping in doorways

Living in the street

Begging to strangers

For coins so you can eat

Most people don’t look

While others stare

Society’s rejected

In a world that does not care

None can see the horror I have seen

None can feel this emptiness I feel

The veteran

None can hear the screams I hear

None can wash away the blood and tears

Lost all sense of meaning

Reality surreal

PTSD afflicted

Wounds that never heal

The veteran

The veteran

A message to the government

Honour the military covenant