The Jungle Man

The Vietnam War never ended.

I still fight the war when I sleep.

Too many men fell

in that jungle of Hell,

And their memories are buried too deep!

The Vietnam War never ended.

I have a friend who moves with a walker,

and another who walks with a cane.

My good friend is trapped

in the revolving PTSD door.

The Vietnam War never ended.

The memory of war has stayed alive.

My friend is in a chair,

but his legs - they aren't there,

and he fights every day to survive.

The Vietnam War never ended.

The plight of my best friend is sad.

He shoots every day with a needle

pourimg his pills with beer

Just to escape the Vietnam pain.

No, the Vietnam War never ended.

It will live with me 'til the day I die.

War won't let you forget,

see, I'm a Vietnam vet,

and at night IF I sleep

I still cry.