Inspirational

My Brother the Marine

Posted on by Marla

He’s only eighteen, too young to even know
Life ahead of him won’t be slow…
Joined up to see the world, to learn and grow…
He’s a Marine…
Rugged, buff, focused, tough…
This brother of mine…Pete’s his name…
Traveling through time
Old now with some regrets…
Holding my hand he never forgets
Who I am, and he always lets…
Me sing him songs and pray…
He bows his head and falls asleep
God help me now as I begin to weep…
Welcome him home, and when you meet…
Joy unspeakable his heart will leap…
Welcome home soldier…
Young again; time will be spent
Living in heaven, I know right where he went…
Rejoicing with mama and daddy and the rest
Take care of him Jesus for he is the best…
And when I get home to my resting place
We’ll join the angels and sing Amazing grace…
How sweet the sound…
That saved a wretch like me…
I once was lost but now I’m found
Was blind but now I see
Forever young…forever free,
My brother, the Marine, Pete!
~~Marla Shaw O’Neill June 21, 2017;
Dedicated to my precious Aunt Rosa Lee Gandy~
My Aunt Rose’s brother Pete, born in 1929, went home to be with the Lord on June 10, 2017.
Marla
I love the Lord Jesus Christ and am passionate about writing. I hope you enjoy the blog and come to visit often. Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2: 2-4