Too Close To Almost

I've flown through clear skies on sunny days

From forty thousand feet

I've sent napalm spiraling toward the earth

I've been the bomber

Not the bombed

I've set towns ablaze and destroyed the enemy below

But from where I'm seated it's nothing but blue skies

Now I'm on the receiving end

Trembling and scared as the earth rips beneath me

Smoke bellows from my leveled home

Shaken, I raise my head to where the vultures feed

The dust settled, and casualties counted

Air raids over, lament has just begun

The disconnect I never knew, now a bringer of grief

Where there ever people below?

Now I am one of them