ROUND EYES
The last thing I remember
was her eyes
Brown, blue, green
I'm not sure now
It doesn't matter
Prettiest eyes I'd ever seen
As they looked into mine
and held me captive
they masked the horror
and the truth.
As she bound my wounds
and eased my pain
She shed tears for me, gentle tears
like breaths that cease
then come again
Love's labor, quickly, calmly 'tho
attending to the task
Undaunted by the cries and screams
and the blood and sweat and gore
And eyes that stare, afraid to ask
And the misery that is war
The last thing I remember
was her face
The loveliest face I'd ever known
Mother, sister, lover, friend
All these things she was to me
as she stopped my fear
and set me free
The last thing I remember
as I looked into her eyes
Round eyes
My vision moved from her eyes
into God's
(For all the Armed Forces Nurses in Viet Nam)
[c 1994 Jack Dallas 5-94]
http://adventures-in-time.blogspot.com/2007/12/round-eyes.html
The last thing I remember
was her eyes
Brown, blue, green
I'm not sure now
It doesn't matter
Prettiest eyes I'd ever seen
As they looked into mine
and held me captive
they masked the horror
and the truth.
As she bound my wounds
and eased my pain
She shed tears for me, gentle tears
like breaths that cease
then come again
Love's labor, quickly, calmly 'tho
attending to the task
Undaunted by the cries and screams
and the blood and sweat and gore
And eyes that stare, afraid to ask
And the misery that is war
The last thing I remember
was her face
The loveliest face I'd ever known
Mother, sister, lover, friend
All these things she was to me
as she stopped my fear
and set me free
The last thing I remember
as I looked into her eyes
Round eyes
My vision moved from her eyes
into God's
(For all the Armed Forces Nurses in Viet Nam)
[c 1994 Jack Dallas 5-94]
http://adventures-in-time.blogspot.com/2007/12/round-eyes.html