Messenger

Running to dodge the bullets.
Each one trying to bare my name.
Rapture in smoke gas mask
Each one here now knows the shame.

I am the messenger

Something you have they want to claim
No matter the world is being stained.
Each passing shot adding the strain.
None of us want this we feel Each other's pain.

But im just the messenger

IED loss some more brothers and sisters
Seen so much I know longer feel affected.
Just wipe off the soot.
No apology will be accepted

I am the messenger

Looking down I no longer feel
Looking around do I still truly see
Am I still human
What the hells wrong with me.

Blight of the messenger

Loud boom burning pain
Blankets thrown over me put out the flame
Pain is excruciating.
Not as much as my shame

I met my messenger

No young man I'm not mad
It was your job to do
I see the what have I done
I see the me in you

We are the messenger

Now I look at the world around me.
Kids will do anything for prestige
Change the way of the world.
You never know when you'll get the message

Sincerely the messenger