The First Battle

Free Form poem
The First Battle
 
 
I raise my hand, and pledge my life,
to defend my God and man.
Save a world, I've never seen,
'tis there I'll make my stand.
 
 
Recruited then, now's time to go,
farewell to family and friends.
To live upon the killing fields,
until the bitter end.
 
 
Moving now, going east,
our training long complete.
Comes soldiers, sailors, airmen,
within this mighty fleet.
 
 
Against the shores, we rush to land,
to face the one's we must.
Fear and pain, turns to hate,
it's blood that we now lust.
 
 
We fight for hours, we will not rest,
until the night will come.
With rocket fire, flying lead
- the tanks' motoring hum.
 
 
Beside me here, lays my friend,
his soul was very bold.
Weeping now, I pick him up,
his body I now hold.
 
 
The dawn arrives, and we awake,
we wrapped our dead today.
We won the fight, that cost their lives,
the price we had to pay.
 
 
Lesson learned, I know not what,
save one, I'll tell you this!
For those who gave, their lives away -
those I'll always miss.
 
 
Kactus Berry