There you go again
Leaving for parts unknown
Every lonely song I sing
Echos throughout my soul

More time apart than together
It hurts to say goodbye
more reunions than I care to count
punctuated by more time

You come home different every time
I don't know what to say
I see less sparkles in your eyes
As you trudge through every day

Jokingly called the Home Front
I keep the ebb and flow
Always ready to welcome you home
Before again you have to go

Ive heard your voice more often
On the phone or on paper
Our baby only met you once
Then you had to go away

Our hero we hold you high
In our hearts and in our minds
Yet still in my secret heart
I wonder if this is the true goodbye

I wasn't ready to lose you
Not to lend you to the cause
How can you be prepared?
For the fear of every loss

Half truths and half lies
On what you do every day
I don't feel like I am fair
To cry and feel ignored

You come home and shed the glory
All the sand, dust and rage
You kiss me twice, on the cheek
I've MISSED you, you always say

At night we go to our bed,
but it's more mine than yours
But you stand there staring at me
And slowly close the door

When your home at first it was magic
We couldn't feel enough
Now we are like strangers meeting
Like virgins, careful and soft

You stand there before me
Presenting just a man
You find yourself lacking
I see perfection there

You lie there beside me
with anguished liquid eyes
You say "Is this really what love is?"
Close your heart and sigh

No, my soldier it's not so
Don't be so quick to fold
This is what love MAKES
and is so hard to hold...

Go now my soldier
I pray for you once again
Go do your duty, and stay safe for me
I will wait here for you

Don't forget your love for me
And the truth that we both know
When this is finally over
No where else to go

Come back into my heart, my mind
And the love you leave behind
Present yourself, a soldier, a man,
And I will see perfection there.

What a wonderful write full of emotion. Thanks for writing this.

i don't know what to say but thank you and, your husband, and your family for all your sacrifices