Lessons from Viet Nam
Liquid fire that clung and burned
Left scars on the body and mind
Tracts of unmarked land
Methodically land mined
Agent Orange from clear skies
Carried on the slightest breeze
Deforming the yet unborn
Defoliating growing trees
Air America operations
So many flights made
Putting money in the pockets
Of Warlords of the drug trade
Flooding USA and Europe
With more and more
Raising cash to finance
That far distant war
Traumatised G.I.’s fighting
A long, unwinnable war
Mentally scarred and forever
Wondering what was it all for.
On both sides quickly
Casualties rise and mount
The piles of body bags
Statistics of the body count.
The humiliating retreat
Flooding the TV screen
Retreating from that place
They should never have been
Lessons from Viet Nam
