A Mothers War

As dark of night descends on the world

Under an inky and starless sky

She sits alone with an empty soul

As all alone she starts to cry

The folded flag upon her lap

Whats left of her treasured son

She grieved his loss at such a cost

Now that alls been said and done

She kissed the boy that went to war

They said he died a man away

Now only childhood memories mark

His passing day by day

His father died a broken heart

He could not bear the pain

She holds on and dreams at night

Of a world not gone insane

Sometimes though with her folded flag

On those inky and starless night

She kneels by a granite stone of gray

Remembering her little boy till morning light!