{ Thirteen }

The Greatest Love

The greatest love I was ever shown, 

Was given me by those unknown.

Whose love for all of those like me, 

Was given without vanity,

Was given freely without remorse,

Free-flying into the battle course.

With courage fighting our enemy,

So our home land would always Home the Free.

So my own children can live and grow, 

My children that they did not know.

Those brave warriors,

Whose lives were lost,

All paying the terrible, ultimate cost.

The greatest heroes, woman and man,

Who gave their lives in a foreign land,

Whose last sight was the desert sand, 

All led to glory by God's tender hand.

Never again to see this sweet land,

That they so loved, that they made their stand.

Never again to take a breath free, 

Or to feel the touch of family,

 They gave up their lives so that it remained free,

For they so loved this great country.

With pride we stand and voice what we want, 

While overlooking soldier souls haunt,

Smiling while children laugh and play,

In freedom growing day by day.

All because of those unknown,  

Who's greatest wish was just to come home.

I pray that maybe, 

when they took their last breath,

That they closed their eyes,

And just before death,

Took the vision to glory,

Of American green,

And smiled when thinking of those unseen.

The greatest love I was ever shown,

Was given me by those unknown.

Thank you!

~Kim Grant