Standing here with me
I think that you are
beautiful
I want time to stop
For just a moment
Long enough to catch my
breath
So I can always remember
you
Exactly as you are right
now
You are beautiful
Is it strange to say that
About a man?
Well, you are beautiful
Beautiful the way
Rockets bursting across
the sky
Over Fallujah are
beautiful
Showers of heat and light
and color
Lighting the faces of the
whole platoon
Beautiful the way
Red is beautiful
Running as a bloody river
From the kisses of death
on skin
My God, you are beautiful
Beautiful the way
Holes dug in earth are
beautiful
To find a little peace on
earth
From incoming fire
That never seems to end
Beautiful the way
Reunions are beautiful
When you clasp loved ones
so tight
You forget to let them
breathe
You are beautiful
Beautiful the way
Tattoos are beautiful
Etched across your skin
Both stories and scars
Words and faces and the
Corps
Inked all over your body
You are so damn beautiful
Beautiful the way
Memories are beautiful
Phantoms are beautiful
When they come to haunt
you
With a fury night and day
And finally just at night
Beautiful the way
Loyalty is beautiful
The kind that means you
would kill
For your battle buddies
Here or across the ocean
Beautiful the way
Smiles for distant things
Others will never see are
beautiful
And silence when you don’t
fill the space
With stories too dark to
share
You are heart-breakingly
beautiful
Beautiful the way
Opening up about
hard-lived days
And carrying all this with
you is beautiful
Absolutely
Utterly
Wrenchingly
Beautiful
