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From the underside of this war
he couldn’t see what it was for
the mud, the filth, and the killing,
the fear that his blood was chilling
and his soul was headed for hell
had distracted his thoughts as well
History books had always said,
there is fame and fortune instead
but, like the sergeant said last night,
“We’re in for a hell of a fight”
This damned hole in a foreign land
is full of bugs and gritty sand
Stories of knights on sturdy steeds
carrying out their honored deeds
were probably fabricated
or at least exaggerated
Some of those battles were fought here
and their reasons were never clear
Some knights died in this very hole
they’re not the ones who we extol
or whose histories will endure
beyond a truer literature
But, he expected, just like them
a final night both scared and grim
Very much like those first crusades
the reason for this battle fades
Beyond the politician’s lies
there is the fact that someone dies
and in the midnight of his soul
plays out his harsh and final role
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