Don’t cry for me mama I served my country well,
I walked through those beaches that felt like hell,
The cries of wounded men had burned my ears,
And swimming through blood and oil brought me tears,
The waves that were once a peaceful sea,
Are now tossing and turning around me,
I was soaked to the skin when I finally got on that beach,
But I had no time to rest for we still had a cliff to reach, ...

Oh brave men of the Arizona
Your names are forever etched in stone
In the sacred bowls of your ship you died alone
You manned your post on Battleship Row
Until the bomb delivered a fatal blow
Boys died deaths of men
And have inspired this poet to take to her pen
Your oily tears are still being shed
Even as you rest on your eternal bed
Your watery grave will be forever sealed
The scars of your country have...

I Don't fear danger or pain
Storms that bring rain
No my fears are deep
Making promises I can't keep
Disappointment 
The word pounds in my head
I lay in bed and think
I'm not good enough
I'm not strong enough
I will never be enough
That is my fear
Letting others down
Not being around
Failing 
I have to rise above this fear
Why can't I see 
I put the most pressure on me
Live and learn 
that's what...

A matchstick, tiny, small, seemingly meaningless. Yet in the darkest of nights it will shine bright. It will be a beacon of hope. It's tiny light will grow as it sets the world on fire. I wish to be that matchstick. To set the world afire with change.