Leaving Home Poem by Aldo Kraas

My two sons
Have been called again
To serve in the
Afghanistan war
Which I hate so much
Because it is such a waste of life
When I think of it
But my two sons have to go
That is a job that they hate so much
But when the
Canadian
Government had called them
They had to comply with them
I am very worried about my sons
Because they are young
And they are peacekeepers
They are not going to be home this year
Because they will be in
Afghanistan
I will be alone this
Christmas
And my sons are very woried also about
Afghanistan
They tell me that they are afraid of the war
And that they feel that they might never come
Back alive again
To be honest when I hear them telling me that they might never come Back alive again I now that they think that they will end up dead in the
Afghanistan war
Yes I understand that everything is posible in
Afghanistan