Barely Legal

Not so very long ago
They would run in any pain
To a mother who would hold them close
And they'd know they'd be okay

Now when they fall down
Their mothers nowhere to be seen
No matter how they call for them
She doesn't wear their green

The wounds that they now suffer
Can't be kissed away at all
And no plasters going to help them now
For this is their final fall

Nineteen and dying in the dirt
A hero before fully a man
Those bullets were not meant for one
Who had barely left the pram

No life was lived before death was given
Their bravery naive
The battlefield's no place for those
With such futures still to weave