For the warriors in us

This is for you

The one without a gun

In a field where gunfire’s merely a buzz in the wind

This is for you

To you whose foot is hanging from a treacherous cliff

Yet, you would not hear a heart skip a beat

This is for you

With a thousand invisible stitches

In places only your unrequited love has touched

This is for you

Who made an endless ocean of tears

To learn how to swim; to learn how not to drown

This is for you

A fearless piece of a cracked soul out in the open

Naked and bruised without a hint of shame

This is to us

Soldiers to the eyes of blind and unknowing men

Captives to our darkest selves

This is to us

Finally holding the gun but pointed at our own head

To those who never stopped living even in death

This is to us

This is for us

This is for the ashes left in the war we fought

Finding its way back to the holes in our hearts