Over the Top

Over the Top

Here in the trenches

where blood and mud mix

we contemplate the 

battle just waged

and plot 

the next one

soon to be

There is perpetually

always more strategy

it is our destiny

to be planted

in these gray fields

no one in our hole

dare question why

for doubt leads

to hesitation

and to pause

is to die

resolve forged

in steel blind

determination

cause come the dawn

we will charge

back into the firestorm

to avenge the fallen

casualties

and their

ghostly memories

more and more

reinforcements

to exit into

statistic history

the cause is irrelevant

just a footnote now

 

this is personal

this is war