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Of mice and man, and all the way to the bitter end

Will it ever end?

These four walss hold no comfort

No warmth at all, only the cold

I could show you a place that would make you sad

Where man stood proud

But the sights reduce all

And the most frightening thing of all

Is what's held in your hand

I try to forget, but the memory of war

Is stronger now than it was before

And when I fall asleep at night

I wake and reach for my gun

But there's nothing there

And there's noone there

It's just another nightmare

From which I can't run

The sweat runs cold as a bitter chill bites from the night

It's another one of those nights

Sleep doesn't come easy now

And when it does it doesn't last long

And these sleepless nights are all I have to show

No medal is worth its weight in gold

The scars on my flesh are nothing

Compared to the nightmares, so cold

I could almost be there, I could taste the air

Running so real through the killing fields

Machine gunfire, shredded by barbed wire

Then I see my friend and the nightmare ends

But will these nightmares ever end!

Johnny was my only friend

We swore to be there until the end

Side by side for days we fought

And end it all if we were caught

And as I stared into his eyes

Upon his face appeared a smile

The he fell into my arms

And died right there in my arms

His blood dripping from my hands

And what I could not understand

Is why my friend so brave so tall

Should be the one who's made to fall?

I lost the best friend that I had

He died with pride, that's not all he had

His little boy will have to know

Why daddy won't be coming home

I relieve it all every night of my life

Noone can help, not even my wife

It all keeps flooding back

The blood and bullet in my friend's back

The sreams, the tears, the tormented cries

The pain to show the white of an eye

And to have seen what I had seen

Would make the hardest man cry

(Note: The names and events in the above are fictional

Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental)