Russell G. Robison

THE WAR

I’ve come to realize that
I can’t tell you who I am
I left too much of me
Back in that place called Vietnam

I came back to my home
But still I never left that land
I brought with me too many things
I still don’t understand

No different from so many
Who had somehow made it through
But I was changed in ways I found
That I could not undo

I still carry too much baggage
From that time of fight to free
I guess that’s just the way of things
And how it’s been for me