For Memorial Day

I will not decorate my door in Red, White nor Blue
This is not the image I wish to portray to you
But rather in browns, grays and colors of gloom
Of Falling, Crashing, Death and Doom

Tears
that spill
and flood to the ground
Blood
that splatters
without a sound

W i t h o u t a s o u n d

Our troops are out there and until they return
I’ll use colors of Sand, Dirt, Mud and Blood

It’s the least I can do to express my concern
For a nation that has yet to learn

I bow my head, show my respect
It's the colors of this nation that I reject
The Lost, the Missing, the Dead
It's for you I bow my head
To Comrades that fought and carried the burden
I wear the colors of Soldiers, of that I am certain