2025/Hailey-

I am of soldier skin and witty humor

Their jobs cloak me

My voice, my relationships, my education, left to the governments rein

Im plucked, stripped, and dropped from house to house, country to country,

But never home

The opportunities I'm given, the places I travel,

Do they make up for the lost childhood

sacrificed for the sake of a country's military

I’m resilient

I utilize my obstacles

But at what cost?

I will never gain back my years taken

Yet I am unique from the ordinary

My love and hate will always be

And my life, forever affected

Grateful and gregarious

I am a military BRAT