Poetry Thursday - My Soldier Girl

By Ma • 14-02-07 • 6:06 pm

This weeks theme for Poetry Thursday is Prose. I have no clue what it really is, but will give it a try. I wrote this for my youngest daughter when she joined the military in 1998, and left home for basic training and AT. It is not the true form that it was written in. I made it to fit the theme Prose. It’s a poem, but with no breaks. The rhyme is there, but it’s not supposed to have any breaks in it. So I just put it all together. After I wrote this, my husband put music to it, and I hope that someday it can be recorded.

My Soldier Girl

The day you went away my soldier girl, to a place unlike your home, a different world. Afraid and all alone you shed a tear, for friends and family that you hold dear. Never giving up the fight you did your best. Stood proud for Uncle Sam with all the rest. Through all the ups and downs you carried on, new friends, new home, at last the tears were gone. And as the time went by, you did your best to cope. With words from Mom and Dad, that turned the fear to hope. And now you’re coming home my soldier girl. To the place you left behind, your little world. Our pride and joy for all the world to see, in our hearts and in our thoughts you’ll always be.The day you went away my soldier girl. And soon you’ll be coming home, my soldier girl.

Now this is the way it was truly written.

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