I feel fine.

Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning
and I find myself careening,
in places where I should not let me go.
She has the power to go where no one else can find me
and to silently remind me
of the happiness and good times that I know

It isn't what She's got to say,
but how she thinks and where She's been.
To me the words are nice the way they sound.
I like to hear the best that way,
it doesn't much matter what they mean.
She says them mostly just to calm me down.

And I feel fine anytime She's around me now,
and She's around me now, almost all the time.
And if I'm well you can tell that She's been with me now,
She's been with me now, quite a long long time.
And I feel fine.

I've been married for one year, and I'm spending my anniversary over 3000 miles away from my wife. People ask why I'm not going to stay in the military after my first enlistment is up, and that's the reason. I don't want to worry about if I'm going to be in another country for Thanksgiving or Christmas or my anniversary or my wife's birthday. I'll be happy when I can go home every day from work to my own house and see my wife and tell her that she's the best thing that ever happened to me. Until then I'll keep focusing on the reasons that made me decide to join the military in the first place.