They Say the Smartest Children are Born in War

I left for my first war in 1995
I left my last war in 1999
Nothing was ever declared

It looked like you would think
But you would not believe what you are seeing
The pyrotechnics like nothing else

My daughter had left the hospital NATO
bombed her first day home
Baba forgot she was home a moment as we could hear

The hospital right down the hill
Cluster bombs strewn
They all said the smartest children are born in war

It has been my experience
We were all there
Had nowhere else to go

Mostly thinking of songs to sing and nicknames
It wasn't all roses
I didn't know how to live that way

What always draws my attention is the novel
My daughter and I had this in common we were lucky
She was like nothing I had ever seen

War warps time
We pick strawberry as they break the sound barrier
Burned out in the Balkans perhaps

Always found something to do
People think my daughter mature for her age
She certainly knows how to succeed

Those four short years seemed centuries
Well I was young
I have done many things

I was never born in war
At the birth of the new millennium we should have been done
The best stories never end

The best ones you want to know what comes next
Born in war lives in to be continued everyday