"That's how it happened!" you hear them say,
As the media poured out to the world.
The war is in my heart to stay;
As my mind reaches for a world -
Without the pain and bloodshed of the war,
Which lay destined far beyond my fate.
But still people fight more and more.
As I remember Nam, it's too late.
Death was put into the hands of mere children;
In the forms of guns and knives
If confronted by enemies, they would kill them.
The many soldiers not fearing the children lost
- their lives.

The war was not won or lost,
Although my mother and father died;
It led me to cross,
To this country, far and wide.

It also led me head first into groups of people,
Who I have never seen the likes of before.
I seem to bear their jokes and insult principle,
Which, as I move on in life I get more and more.
These people are so prejudiced,
But then again, beggars can't be choosers,
So I try my best -
To ignore these trouble making losers.
 

 

This poem shows my general view I had of the Vietnam War and the death caused by it.  The last four lines of the first stanza depict the tragedy of the war where mere children dealt with death and the loss of so many lives.

The first line of the second stanza indicates that the war in reality was not won or lost and that all the pain and bloodshed was for nothing.  No-one wins a war, even if it seems as though a war is won, it indicates failure in the human race, no matter what nationality.

"The war is in my heart to stay" is how I feel and how everyone who has been to war would no doubt feel.  I may not actually remember much, but how can I forget the war for the simple fact that I am in Australia and not Vietnam.

It was the war that was the reason for my adoption as it was the war that killed my original parents, so it is believed.  That is why I can never forget the war.

The second stanza concentrates on how a majority of my people are treated by Austrlaians in a prejudiced manner.   They blame my generation for what happened.  The Australians were involved becaues of the politics of the day and we didn't force them to come over and fight.  Because it was Australian politics, they should be blaming one another instead of using us as scape goats.