Cosmopolite

With kisses, hugs and tears
You sent him on the "Nobel Cause"
To fight and kill in hell.
To save the world for us.

You sweetly knit him bright warm socks.
And bake your best brown cookies.
The ones with sugar icing.
The ones he loves so much.

Then one day the news arrived,
The boy you birthed and bred,
The hero boy Is dead. You weep,
And weep again.

And place a flag with one star
On the windowpane and pray,
The Lord to keep my hero boy
My boy, who now is dead.