Permanent Twilight
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Though my name is important
You can pay it no mind
Till I'm sipping the breeze
On those streets there outside
But today's like the day
That's just gone before
I lay frozen quiet
On this fifth VA floor
We were stationed in Basra
On our captain's order
In a forcible change
Of some government border
When I laid down my boot
On a hidden tick mine
And the shrapnel near blind me
As it severed my spine
My comrades though wounded
Did carry me back
To a surgical unit
Not safe from attack
Through the heat and the dust
And the dirt and the wind
Then they turned and went back
To the battle again
I would march if I could
To the sound of the guns
But I can't move a muscle
To walk or to run
And though perceptive to light
I can't see you at all
Yet here in my darkness
I still watch comrades fall
From the halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli
I would fight my country's battles
If only I could see
If God gave me back my vision
And they'd give me back my gun
Then I would will my body
To any war we needed won
But your days are my evenings
And your mornings my nights
And my time is now spent
In a permanent twilight
I'm pleased that you'd visit
Though you know I can't stand
Though my looks may deceive you
This soldier's still a man
Though my name is important
You can pay it no mind
Till I'm outside these walls
On the streets feeling fine
But today's like the day
That's just gone before
I lay frozen quiet
On this hospital floor
Now all you young ramblers
Who think you're so fine
And your country's so noble
Its rivers run wine
Remember the man
Whose days are his nights
In a landmine which gave me
This permanent twilight
Permanent twilight