i stood here the day you said goodbye
and watched you get on a plane
and said i would always be by your side
that i would always love you and care for you
but two years later it was different
i didnt understand why it had to be so hard
to love a marine
you didnt come home though i waited
i sat and watched for you to show
i didnt feel your heart beat
i couldnt see your smile
so i waited for just a little while
until a letter was delivered and put in my hands
i sat upon the bench and read very slowly
of the demise of my love and my marine
they said it was friendly fire
that it was just a simple mistake
that he was a hero for petes sake
but how do they tell of a mistake
to a woman in love with a marine
he was my world he was my marine
he always said he would return
well the coffin is here and his wake begins
and everybody says how sorry they truelly are
but they dont understand how i sit by yourside
but i never cried not even a single tear
i sat there letting the numbness settle in
because he did what he had to do
he did what he knew was right
this i truelly know
because he were a soldier
he was a marine
it comes with the territory
it comes with fallin in love with a marine
i miss him terribly i hate to say it is so
but my love for him is true and till the end
because i wouldnt trade the years with him
for a lifetime with someone else
because he was my universe.
he was the sun and my life revolved around his
because he was my marine
as the people leave i see his face once again
in my dreams he will forever stay
because he was the only marine in my life
he was and always will be my marine
you were and always will be my marine
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem