# A Letter from My Love

Author: FunnyFarm
Tags: Military, Poem, Romance, Suicide, War

#1 of War Poems

People often forget that soldiers are not the only casualties in war~

"A Letter from My Love"  
~~Wayne Magill~~  
  
I had a darling I loved so dearly  
He was brave and strong and left nothing in a shroud,  
But when his letter came, he went so cheerily  
And he told me, "I shall make my country proud!"  
  
On the day of his going  
He kissed my cheek and waved,  
And with pride and pleasure showing  
Left for the honor he craved.  
  
For one long year apart  
He wrote both day and night,  
But in one letter he poured me his heart  
And left me all a-fright.  
  
He talked of gore and guts and blood  
And how his fate was sealed,  
He spoke of how the bodies flood  
Every medic that they wheeled.  
  
He told me all these horrid things  
And that he'd never make it through,  
He said somewhere a sparrow sings  
Of my limitless love for you.  
  
He admitted all his foolishness  
And confessed of all his fear,  
"Nothing here will ever progress."  
"I love you, dear."  
  
On and on, his letter went  
For three whole pages long,  
And all the things he aimed to vent  
Were in his dying song.  
  
Soon enough the end was reached  
And I was all in tears,  
All the lessons that it teached  
Had confirmed me of my fears.  
  

 I walked myself to his abode  
Through the midday sun,  
And I opened the dresser as it forbode  
I finally found his gun.  
  
As my last farewell I had bade  
I pressed the metal to my head,  
I told myself I shouldn't have stayed  
But now my heart was dead.  
  
In one last faint breath  
I knew my life had gone,  
But even in the wakes of death  
Our love shall live on.

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