For my Grandparents!

~ For my Grandparents ~

And all the Veterans on this

and all remembrance Days!

Looking in their eyes

and understanding what I’d seen

the veterans that they were

Scarred from the wars before me,

Never coming back from the damage ‘they’ did see

Looking in their eyes

understanding what I’d seen

the family that was lost

from the distance those wars cost,

Grandparents hard to love

because of the high cost

The difference of our worlds

from the state of point of view,

The poppies that I see

Hurts the love inside of me

For the people that I lost

who were way too old to see;

the limit of their love

towards the grand-daughter in me,

I lifted them on high

For what it is they meant to me,

When they looked inside my eyes

It was that love they didn’t see

When I was growing up around

the silence of disease,

The damage those wars cost for so many families

As I wipe away the tears;

for the words they’ll never hear

as I remember my love for them

through the eyes of innocents,

And remember what they shared

And who I fight to be from here,

For looking in their eyes

and understanding what I’d seen

the veterans that they were

from the wars before me,

the families that were lost

from the distance those wars cost,

As I learn to say good-bye

Knowing what their love did cost

While still inside remember

What it is they meant to me;

from the distance of our Worlds

and the states of point of view

and how the poppies that I see

will always hurt,

the little girl inside of me!