Left home before eligibility for draft by a couple years

Boot camp was hard but not hard enough

1 lucky stray caught me in the back of the head

more blood than tears would be shed

Shot up into the sky and had a view of Earth only astronauts would come close to getting

Earth spins one direction while my view spins the other

Hopefully this time, I get to be someone who doesn't fight the emptiness an absent father left with an infantry of barely post-pubescent pawns that perpetuate policy patriotic seat warmers propagate