It Don't Mean Nothin', It Doesn't Mean a Thing

“IT DON’T MEAN NOTHIN”
“IT DOESNT MEAN A THING”

It don’t mean nothin,
It doesn’t mean a thing.

When I heard these phrases,
they made me want to scream.

These words were said to calm a friend,
his Buddy won’t be coming back again.

To a person’s Buddy, when he was told,
his friend had died while on Patrol.

A sense of rage comes down on them,
they can’t understand why they lost their friend.

The stages that they all go through,
are sad as Hell to help them do.

Tears roll down their saddened cheeks,
their sorrow is felt and hard to speak.

First there’s confusion, then comes rage,
as the tears roll down their saddened face.

The words that you tell them just don’t help,
these were the cards and the hand that was dealt.

Your friend is dead, he’s now with God,
he is finally going Home.

I wish I could give you more comforting words,
but these are all I know.

It takes some time, but you’ll move on,
knowing that your friend isn’t there, and gone.

It’s thoughts like this that eat the brain,
and always in memory it will remain.

In Nam we had a saying,
when things didn’t go so well.

We’ve all been through it and seen it all,
And we all admit it was Hell.

Now that this Poem is reaching the End,
I have one more thing to say.

“IT DON’T MEAN NOTHIN”
“IT DOESN’T MEAN A THING”

But let me tell you brother,
life means everything.

CPL Doug Maier 7/14/01