We Were Soldiers

Let Us Not Forget

~Now I lay me down to sleep

as I do each night~

~I pray the Lord my soul to keep

unto the coming light~

~If I should die before I wake

within my nightmarish~

I pray the Lord my soul to take

unto his Heaviness~

~Sometimes I feel my life in ruins

my thoughts play hide in seek~

~Headed for the land of doom

all in turning bleak~

~My mood of swing be flying high

upon the tightest rope~

~So many young so many died

so many years ago~

~But for me ‘twas just last night

like every night before~

~An overwhelming Firefight

of blood in wrenching horror~ 

~I dream of death in never end

walking every turn~

~Remembering those of all my friends

whom never did return~

~Of those I killed in self defense

they had families too~

~I pray for their remembrance

in Heaven’s rendezvous~

~When I leave this earth in death

I ask you only this~

~To bury me at Soldiers Rest

in that of reminisce~

~To pray for me of Heaven send

in that I did my best~

~I was a Soldier to the end

unto my final rest~

~”We Were Soldiers” young in old

in the midst of war~

~Of so very long ago

my nightly dream of horror~

~I dream of death in never end

walking every turn~

~Remembering those of all my friends

whom never did return~

~Of those I killed in self defense

they had families too~

~I pray for their remembrance

in Heaven’s rendezvous~

Duke Sherman

Vietnam Veteran

Black Horse Soldier

Vietnam, 1971/1972