Was It Just A Year Ago?

Was it just a year ago?
When you returned home
So beaten and bruised
So lost and alone

Army green committed
Signed on the dotted line
Looking for direction
Seek and you shall find

Five months passed by slowly
My little boy was gone
Graduation would soon be here
I would see you “Army Strong”

With your training completed
Came news of a great love
There was the girl of your dreams
Yes, you had met “The One”

Orders for the Old Guard
Would send you out to DC
Your Home is now where
The Army wants you to be

Now you are newly married
Together with your Army wife
You look into the future
And plan your military life

So young you both still are
So difficult the times you face
Your wife will soon deploy
And be half the world away

But this a mother knows
When she thinks of her young son
God will take good care of you both
As He has always done

Time will pass by quickly
You will ponder when she returns
“Was it just a year ago?
The lessons of separation I learned”

The mother smiles broadly
As she looks over her life span
Was it just a year ago?
My little boy became this Man