How long has it been? That question seems so unfair,
To wonder how long you have been somewhere.
It took him years to sleep through the night,
Always waiting for Operation Bright Light.
But now it seems he sleeps most of the time,
he now realizes he was left behind.
And it seems so unjust-- for us he gave his all,
because of us he took the fall.
He's lived in places we would condemn,
take this moment to remember him.
They can keep him forever and it seems they will,
for our Government denies there existence still.
They live in Hell-- not in the fiery since
but in bamboo cages and barbed wire fence.
Do you see him now, hands clinched to the bars,
our Government did this to him, can you see his scars???
Imagine yourself in his shoes, just for one day
and you will never forget The POW/MIA.
Sheena Watson © 1999
