Monday, February 4, 2013

Beautiful The Way

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

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