The Rising Sun

Deployment to Okinawa 2017-18.

I've journeyed off to foreign lands.

Where foreign waters touch foreign sands.

And this is not within my mind,

I'm physically here this time.

This is not a daze, not a hoax 

I can't escape this foreign coast.

A part of me wishes to be away

But another only wants to stay.

What shall I do in this foreign scape? 

What lies in my unknown fate?

Will I be fulfilled when comes the dawn?

Or will I feel discontent when I'm finally gone?