Two Black Walls

Two Black Walls

They are not black walls of empty granite.
It is a memorial of 57,939 soldiers killed in Vietnam.
The memorial is simple two stark, black walls each
246 feet filled with names etched in the granite.
The memorial is not simple.
Some veterans can not look at it.
Emotion runs high, the shiver up their back
A tear for a lost one.
No matter, who you are you have to think of the first
Man that died in 1959 and the last man that died in 1975
And ask why.
You ask, "Where have all the men gone."
They have all gone to heaven fighting for our country.
I may never go to the Vietnam memorial, but on this Veterans
Day in 1982, those two black walls are full of memories
And boy did those walls shine and they will forever
For us all to remember the men and women, who died
For us in the Vietnam war.

By Brock