Sometimes it's tough being a female in the military. |
Wake up at the crack of dawn Put her boots and uniform on Bun is tight and neatly in place Her gun is loaded and ready for the chase She has been trained So much she has gained To be a stronger female She now can only prevail To be something greater Although there are so many haters Who don't support her choice And won't hear her voice Scream out her fears Or see the tears That fall upon her cheek As each passing week Goes by and she's all alone No matter how much she has shown She is still the same person As before and the pain worsens Only her parents pray That she'll come home to stay And be safe from all the trepidation As she fights for our nation Her peers don't understand The sting of the sand As it hits her face This is more than a race Of who kills who first And nothing will quench her thirst Of the hunger that yearns And the anger that burns Within her soul Her heart is no longer whole For each person that denies Her efforts, she dies A little each time inside But she can never hide The blood she sheds Her sanity hangs on by threads As she fights for her own breath And will fight til her death Also she battles for her friends at home For all of our freedom At first when she enlisted She felt like she existed For a greater destination And would receive admiration From the ones she cares for But instead they ignore Her strength and devotion And every emotion That is felt when Each war begins And she's out there And no one cares That she may die Not knowing why She's there in the first place But this is no longer the case It's the simple fact That her courageous acts Seem to go disregarded As she is ridiculed as retarded For deciding to enlist For deciding to exist As something convalescent Not becoming something obsolescent Wake up at the crack of dawn Put her boots and uniform on Bun is tight and neatly in place Her gun is loaded and ready for the chase Janessa Lynn (aka Specialist Amstutz of the Indiana Army National Guard; serving our country as a Nuclear Biological Radiological Chemical Warfare Specialist since August 30, 2004 til August 30, 2012) |