Why, oh why ?
Should I wait so long.
Through dull and dreary,
Long winter nights.
Wrapped in layers
Of loneliness and despair.

A solitary light outside,
To hold all the hope.
Uncertainty creeping,
Along the cold walls
Gnawing away slowly
At little solace left,
Like rats on tidbits.

I cry out loudly,
But no soul to hear.
No consolations,
No shoulders to weep on.

No words can express,
The joy I feel
At the distant sight
Of a military man.