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My heart fills with love as I watch the sunrise in the sky

Listening to the winds of change and watching the birds fly

On this summer day the colors of the sky are beautiful up high

The blues and yellows creating orange fill my one eye

The patch on the other eye due to shrapnel in the war

This feels so good being home without killing to settle a score

My family is happy I am home from the war

Now I can catch up on love and settle my family’s score

My special boy is four and my little girl is seven

In Iraq we sent so many just like them into heaven

We are so lucky not to be invaded in our land

Every moment at home I treasure with my family as I planned

Being away for so long has changed me inside

I no longer feel a deep sense of pride

After all the killing and hearing the politicians that lied

I no longer know why I killed or why so many civilians died

Sending them to meet Allah in the sky

Filling my heart with pain watching little children cry

Then I think of my children and I too want to cry

I think of holding them tightly, hoping they will never die

These are special moments filled with silence and love

Reflecting on my family and praying to my faith above

Every day I ask my faith to forgive me for those I have killed

Remembering all the brutal pain I created and blood I have spilled

When I sleep at night my mind starts to race

Screaming children appear in my mind from no place

Then the thoughts leave my mind without a trace

Seeing so many die haunts me and my mind continues to race

I feel my wife put her arms around me

She enjoys watching the sunrise feeling free

Knowing I am home safe set her mind free

She was locked in a worry prison waiting for me

My wife knows I have changed into a different man

I am much more serious and used to always having a plan

Gone is the innocence I had when I first went to war

Now I need to find myself and forget killing to settle a score

I feel so guilty inside know I have killed over lies

We found no weapons of mass destruction, only civilizations' cries

So many civilians caught in the bombing from the skies

I cannot forget seeing the dead bodies covered in flies

Images burned into my brain still bother me today

I have to relearn how to have fun and learn how to play

So much has changed in me deep in my mind

Spending time with my family, feeling love if I unwind

Things I took for granted are no longer in my mind

My thoughts are covered in body bags and death is what I find

I am so happy to be home and away from that hellhole

Patrolling the desert has crippled me and taken its toll

I hear my children laughing as they come near

My habits of looking for a sniper are still here

Protecting the ones I hold dear and love

Trying to make peace in my mind with heaven above

I hold my wife and children close as tears fill my eyes

I want to love them and forget about the war or political lies

Forget about those who died and cried fighting in the war

Try to find my soul again and live my life once more