When they go home. I’m left here alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Skin and bone, are the only things that stay with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are no more. We become what I was before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A sore on my mother’s heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her birth pains from the very start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those screams are not of joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theres no parade waiting, after they tell her it’s a boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deployed to fight in the world’s war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shipped away from the simple things, afar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When they go home, they think their suffering is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s only then do they discover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Home is where you make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family can tell you it’s alright or fake it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They can’t really know what we go through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men of this world meant to die, a public display for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is this how you treat your Messiah, when he has come to save?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trade him for a killer as you taunt and rave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the real story. I’m left here to tell it, like it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My illiteracy doesn’t allow me to hide behind words, like a spelling quiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When they go home, they will be welcomed with open arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heroes for a day, all sins forgiven, no qualms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is, until the rent is late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who’s going to pay your bills, clean your slate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out there you have to carry your own weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whoever called it the free world, lied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reality is, there\u2019s a cost of living and a cost because he died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You all got to pay to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you think you can still lounge around all day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Living off the hard working tax payers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only we in prison are allowed this privilege, the non-players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, go home. Get out there and play the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll be here, living my best life, where everything remains the same….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watching the world go around and down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As greedy men continue to find their worth in the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burying what little hope you may have had of a good life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At home most people live with anxiety and strife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In here, most people live with guilt and Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When they go home, I pray they succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Find a partner and fulfill each other\u2019s need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There or here the common gift gives us meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
True love that can do all the healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
by Chiron Francis, Texas<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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