lost soldier

cloaked in a tattered american flag dripping red stripes of blood
a soldier wanders aimlessly in the dark blue of night under the flags stars
alone with a "a k47'" held by hands that have frozen stubs instead of fingers

covered in the fifty states he has been sent to protect he has taken
fifty bullets for them
fifty days of hunger
fifty days and fifty nights
fifty endless miles walking……wandering…….searching…

for nothing


he knows nowhere to go
and nowhere to be
he has no place to hide

so he walks

he walks and walks for his country
the same country that has forgot him on enemy lines

his blood soaking the flag that should protect him as
his life slips away into the white light striped on the flag

a soldier found hidden in the colors of america, lifeless.
the colors of those who left him fill his eyes as the fire consumes his body and the

flag  meant to protect and remember.