IT'S BEEN MANY AGONIZING YEARS IN THIS DARK, LONELY SECLUDED HELL
BEING TREATED AS A CRIMINAL FOR SERVING MY COUNTRY WELL
THE BEATINGS, TORTURE, SOLITUDE, AND STARVING I CAN ENDURE
BUT NOT THE THOUGHT OF MY COUNTRY LEAVING ME BEHIND FOREVERMORE
IS THERE NO ONE WHO CARES THAT I AM BEING TREATED THIS WAY
AFTER DOING ALL I COULD TO ENSURE THIS SMALL COUNTRY WOULDN'T BE LED ASTRAY
MY DAYS AND NIGHTS ARE SPENT IN THE DARK, STANDING OR SITTING IN MY OWN WASTE
TRYING TO KEEP THE RATS FROM INVADING MY TINY SPACE
MY HEALTH HAS NOT BEEN GOOD WITHOUT THE MEDICAL ATTENTION I NEED
INFECTION RUNS RAMPANT AS MY MUSCLE AND FLESH STEADILY RECEDE
SURELY AMERICA WILL NOT LEAVE ME HERE IN THIS CONDITION
THEY TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN, NO MATTER THE MISSION
AS ANOTHER DAY COMES TO AN END , I STILL HOLD OUT HOPE
INSTINCTIVELY KNOWING, THAT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN EVER COPE.
By: Doc "Rocky" Keith Miller
HM2 3/26 Marines
RVN 68-69
8/5/2002
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