On This Lonely Road

On This Lonely Road

Tears blow across the Atlantic
To the Middle shores,
Following another flight
With ghastly answers in it’s stores.

Another plane empties
Yet another compartment
With more and more boxes
Making mother fall to the cement.

These mother are all
Saddened and confused,
They feel like
They’ve been used -
It seems last week
They were tucking sons into bed -
Now the government
Brings them back dead.

But there was one
Who too her heart of tears
That burst loose
From realizing her fears,
And went down that long road
To find more answers
Than she has been told.

She went down to Crawford,
To sit there and wait -
She had to be certain
Such was her fate.

But wouldn’t it be nice
If he had the courage to answer why
Her beloved son
Had to go to die?

She’s been hailed by the left
And demonized by the right
Also abandoned by her husband,
Who decided to take flight,
But when she has spent
Her 15 minutes of fame,
The end result will be
All of the same:
She’s going to come home
Absent her husband and son,
With well-meaning intentions
Paying a hefty-sum.

The past and future
For her both disappeared,
It all has come alive
What she has feared.

She’s gone down that long road,
And come to a dead end,
With it being a bit late
To start over again.

To the woman bearing
This unbearable weight
You got to respect
No matter your fate,
But keep going so another
Mother doesn’t have to again
For when you travel
Down to little Crawford
You will find in sprit
It is a long road.