"MY NAME IS MIA"

My name is MIA
I am eternal.
I've fought in every war
since the beginning of time.
Most often I have been found
and taken home.

But in Korea I was not.
I was marched in the bitter
cold and the snow.
I was taken to North Korea
where I was brain washed
and lost my way.
Yet I know I am different
from those around me,
but I do not know my name.

I was taken to China
to be slave labor,
they have forgotten we
were once their allies
and tried to save their land.

I fell and could not get up
and they shot me where I lay.
I fell, got up and continued
my work.

I was taken to Russia
to the cold Siberian snows.
There I perished, but they
will not tell you where I am.

In Viet Nam I was again lost.
I was kept in a cage in the
dark wet jungle.

I also was killed and buried
in that same jungle.

I was marched to Hanoi where
I was used as a propaganda tool.
I was taken to the killing fields
of Cambodia.

I was again taken to China
as slave labor.
In the Middle East I was found.

In Bosnia I was found.
But in Korea, as in Vietnam
I still remain.

My name is MIA -
I want to come home!!
by S. O. Bailey
copyrighted 1999