Hearts On The Pacific: Godsend

The next chapter of this somewhat epic (maybe) story.

Enjoy:
I look around, what do I see?
A million faces black from the ashes
Of bombed out homes and burning bodies
Haunting my dreams
'I need some coffee'

But what to do when the songs that got us through
Those darkest days betray us too

Brothers in arms, with you I faced trial by fire
I'm glad I survived it
In your prime you were cut down
No blaze of glory
Just screams of agony

But what to do when the lights that guided us through
Those darkest days fade out too

Now I'm left running blind through Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo
I'm just praying to God to show me a sign
To spare me some light

Pretty girl falling down
Almost like an angel with the dirtiest face
I can't forget her first gaze

She screamed and kept on running
From demons,
"Not without a fight"

Then she became the brightest star in my life
Starting from 5 minutes ago
Am I desperate or am I just blind?

Maybe I'm trying
Trying too hard
Or am I just waiting for something good
To keep me going until I die

In the corner I saw her crying
And so I went and tried to smile
I asked her name
Don't you know,
She replied
"Yumiko"

(END)

Here, it starts off with Jack still stationed in Okinawa after the end of the war. He looks around at the death and destruction around him that the Marines had caused. Horror and a sense of guilt take him as he laments what had transpired. This goes to the point where he no longer wishes to sleep because these images appear in his dreams.

The reference to 'songs' is significant in the sense that during the war, there were many American war songs to raise the moral of the troops and Jack feels cheated by these songs as the glory of victory didn't match up to the scarring the war caused.

He then recalls all the friends he made in the army had been killed in action and realizes that all of them were violent and non-heroic deaths. As he wanders the streets alone, he begins hallucinating. He then snaps back to reality as he sees a young Japanese woman tripping over her own feet as she attempts to run away from something.

Looking around, he sees her being chased by two American marines who then corner her. (Note: After the end of the war, there were many cases of American troops raping local women so this is another possible one). Seeing her struck a chord in Jack's heart and he goes in to save her, beating up the other two marines in the process.

He then ponders what made him do that. He reflects whether he is just so deep in depression that he needs something good in his life.

He asks her name and she seems to understand and replies 'Yumiko'.

And there's yet another installment to the story :)

Hope you guys liked it