Voluntold
When joining the Navy, volunteered or “voluntold”
We think how to be brave, how to be bold?
Will I know what to do as the future unfolds?
By them who’ve experienced, you’re told
Yet you still don’t know what you’ll behold
And from here on out, your life is controlled
You’ve been sold to fit a mold, you’ve enrolled
Into a program, doled, freedom they withhold
You’ve patrolled and consoled and paroled
Then when you’re old, stories are fortold
Repeats generation upon generation
A truth we uphold.
Hear me read this poem below!
