Anna's Eyes

Anna's eyes stare back at me
with a simple pure love.
They open up the places in my heart
I've never once thought of.
They call to me and pull me in
so gently pure and warm.
They set fire to my inside
and my innocence is torn,
could this be a sweet delicate girl
or the devil in disguise?
I'm the only one who knows
the sweet suffering it is
to look into Anna's eyes.
I close my eyes and I feel her hand touch my face
in the midst of the blazing cannons,
Can she be here with me?
Her fingers caress me gently
on the bed where I lay,
they reach the saddest places
and calm me in their only way.
I can not move a muscle
She controls all of me.
The raging fire burns around,
I hear another anguished cry
of some poor honorable man,
as some other luckier kid
drags him in from the pit of no man’s land.
But she keeps me here with her,
the only place I want to be
She shields me from the this ungodly world,
with her I am free.
When I am with her, love and beauty exist again
not in this one, where the ground
is strewn with the bodies of dying men.
Where hate and death rule with a hard and iron fist,
When Im with her that world disappears and
I feel nothing but bliss.
She comes to me in secret
when I’m laying all alone.
When the night is here
and it chills me clear through my bones.
I close my eyes and see her come,
She lays down beside me
but says not a word,
She just holds me in her arms
and we pretend we are birds.
We set sail for the place high above the sky
and through the thick white clouds,
away from this terror filled world, we fly.