Post Traumatic Stress Disorders

Patriotic men and women who fought with loyalty

Overseas to preserve a country’s sovereignty

Soldiers returned home but unaware

The country they fought for will show little care

They battled different races of many enemies

Raided the terrorists from many countries

And never expected that they will be on homeland

Unable to live productively how others can

Memories and nightmares invade their sleep

And moments that trigger recalls cause them to weep

They are misunderstood and taunted as being mad

In the streets discarded despite the tours they had 

Cast out by society, can’t even get work

So they roam the streets as perils lurk

The number of suicides exceed war casualties

Reward for their bravery is now fatalities

Even though the problem is ignored by the USA

Such mistreatment of the Vets isn’t going away

Some of the soldiers on the outside look strong

Don’t look as though they could be anything wrong

It’s easy to call them hard back men

So easy to overlook that these men are ruin

Our society force these men into crime

Risking now for food to eat they’re forced to do time

Don’t we see the irony of putting them in jail

Every one we do is another time we fail

Rather than the 40,000 to incarcerate

Soldiers can be cared for in society until they rehabilitate