Every day a battle raged
Shall i go or shall i stay
Between to worlds my fate does sit
Hinging upon a soft limerick

Twisted by the change of day
I yearn to be more free and gay
Yet these burdens pile on
until I am no more then gone

I, but a soft limerick

Shh shh
close your eyes,
shh shh
you feel that pain? It will dissipate
be strong. dry your eyes
for life will move on.

You'll put gravel in your guts and dirt in your eyes.
you'll be strong, you'll stay put.
no force on earth will move you
no hand will shake your hold.
no fist will burden your load.

You will be strong.

You are alone  now though
and you will stay alone, least you
push on, Push On, PUSH ON
be strong

You will rise from the darkness one day
and shine with a light all your own,
for you are strong.

I look out onto the ashen fields
I look out and I wonder
I wonder if in This moment

This moment when the clouds drift
when the sun touches the horizon
when the ashen fields glow, backlit

I wonder if in this moment
when I look out onto the city bellow
where the people pass by in directions unknown
where the pigeons roost in their steel trees
where a man whimpers sick and alone in an ally

I wonder if in this moment
when I look out across the limitless ocean
with its growing swells
with its uncharted depths
with its abundance of unforgiving life

I wonder if in this moment
is it worth it?

Cross over the front lines.
Take siege to the battle field.
Cross fire. ****.

Take hold of your comrades hand.
Take hold of their glass eyes, their dead hearts.

Weep. move on.
Wrench the gun from a fallen brother.
The ******* will pay.

Take aim. TAKE AIM! push forward.
Crawl beneath the barbed wire, through the mud, through the filth, through the blood.

Cover your face.
Close your eyes.
Don't breath in. the mustard gas kills.

Take their trenches.
STAB with your bayonet.
Slash with your dagger.
They are the enemy, evil.

Resist with every fiber of your being.
Fight like a trapped dog.
Be shot.
Be stabbed.
die