Veterans Day lyrics

Many freebies and discounts

But they keep no value here

The voices of the past echo

Their need without recompense

Because it must be that way

Looking back at those times

The hardships and the joys

Life lived sincerely, earnestly

Tinted shades of ambiguous grey

Earthen tones, brown and green

Spent in silence of contemplation

This day is a somber lone day

Remembering those beings

That once touched my spirit

Vanishing, they remain ever near

Rain today, raining down tears

Some given to profound pain

Others to simple joys known

Moments that made it living

A long shadow at day's end