The Far Away War Soldier
A little girl
Cried today,
Her soldier Daddy
Had gone away.
He left to fight
In a far away war,
Her bedtime stories
He will read no more.
No more cuddles
Or kisses in store,
Her daddy had left
To fight a far away
War.
Mommy received
A telegraph today,
She knelt down by her small daughter
And with tears
Began to say.
Daddy went away
To fight a far away war,
But his little girls cuddles
He can give you no more.
Her tears overwhelmed her
She hugged her daughter as she
Sobbed,
Daddy has left us
And is now living with God.
Maybe one day
When the little girl grows much older,
She will tell her own children stories
Of the far away War
Soldier.
© Jamest West
