This Precious Moment

With your kind eyes and bright smile

You proved to me that having a huge heart

Is the thing that truly matters in life

You taught me your trials of being a Christian soldier

Showed the hardships that truly exist

When trying to love your enemies

Walking the line between your two lives

You never let your darker side show

Military and companionship separated by a thin line

And the times where the line swerved

And the two colors mixed

Cold steel grinding against a welcome embrace

Ambitious ecstasy of youth always clawed its way back out

Yet when the sadness that floods your eyes bleeds through

When you look upon your one year old daughter

And have to think that you may never see her again

Even my childish awareness can feel the regretful frustrating sadness

You taught me to cherish everyone I care for

In that moment

At that moment

Because it could be your last

Dedicated to Brian deployed to Iraq as of August 2005