Just Spilled Off Words

We are such great actors now
that I'm sure we've forgotten how
to be honest and true and smile
for real.
I'm going to stand up and scream very soon
that I want out and I want free.
I just want to be me without the war.
The fighting took my life of half
and cause it to be a casualty no one noticed.
We can ask why forever but
the answers may never come.
I'm trying to stand but I've been stumbling.
His tears fall, mine are stuck behind the glass
that is my eyes.
I'm a soldier in a losing battle, but
I can win maybe if they stop fighting.
Intensity rising, I learn my lines
acting each day like the world is turning,
when in fact the world is stopped.
I am who I am, what I am, where I am
in the middle of the desert with
the dust in my eyes but still standing.
I'll tell you, I'll tell you screaming
that it's never going to stop.
Because the worlds still turning
and we're still standing here burning.
And it starts anew each day when we open our eyes.
We have to face head on,
standing tall,
holding strong,
forever and forever.