I am to be
A hero of war.

I saw myself off,
Over that ocean so blue,
And into our frontiers.

Put into a battalion
That is none but death bound,
I wondered if I’d be
One more statistic
Adding to the millions.

A wiped battalion,
With me the sole survivor.
An ambush left me running
And now I’m lost.

I saw an enemy
Coming through the smoke.
I told her to stop,
But she kept her pace
So I dropped another human,
And added to the statistic.

As I went to examine
This defiantly death bound soldier,
I saw in her hand
A flag,
White as an ocean pearl.

But now it was dyed half red.

At home I had become a hero,
The patriot of the land of the free,
But I am not a patriot of any sort
Nor a man of vast bravery.

Life continues onwards,
But death always haunts.