- Messages
- 18
- Reaction score
- 52
- Points
- 2,285
- Salty Doubloons
- 891
“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely."
This wasn't supposed to be like this.
I've never felt this kind of fear.
Now I find myself quivering
Will I meet my end, here?
Decisions are often not given
They're supposed to be made!
But this here is a mission
That feels like a charade.
It would be different
If this was a personal stand
The worst feeling, I've realized?
When your life is not in your hands.
May this be a sign
This problem is not benign?
"... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck!"
Gone are the days
Of myself in a business suit.
My heart beats like a drum
My body feels like spoiled fruit.
As the weeks trudge on
I'm sick of all the blood.
Consoling me, my family
Calls to remind me I'm loved.
The enemy is a cancer
But as this war continues
But I know by the end
I'll survive these issues.
Is life and death
Just a game we play?
"And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
I am not the soldier I thought I was.
Though I'm glad to be alive.
The doctor holds my hand,
And tells me that I'll survive.
"The treatment was a success!
And you'll surely be cured."
My muscles have withered away
Will I ever feel like I did before?
Laying in the hospital bed
Watching every drug enter me
Through the IV, the battle
On the inside, slowly killing me.
No time to process how things went awry.
The only options are laugh, pray, and cry.
"This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. We’re going down there, and we’re throwing everything we have into it, and we’re going to make it a success.”
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
This wasn't supposed to be like this.
I've never felt this kind of fear.
Now I find myself quivering
Will I meet my end, here?
Decisions are often not given
They're supposed to be made!
But this here is a mission
That feels like a charade.
It would be different
If this was a personal stand
The worst feeling, I've realized?
When your life is not in your hands.
May this be a sign
This problem is not benign?
"... I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck!"
Gone are the days
Of myself in a business suit.
My heart beats like a drum
My body feels like spoiled fruit.
As the weeks trudge on
I'm sick of all the blood.
Consoling me, my family
Calls to remind me I'm loved.
The enemy is a cancer
But as this war continues
But I know by the end
I'll survive these issues.
Is life and death
Just a game we play?
"And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”
I am not the soldier I thought I was.
Though I'm glad to be alive.
The doctor holds my hand,
And tells me that I'll survive.
"The treatment was a success!
And you'll surely be cured."
My muscles have withered away
Will I ever feel like I did before?
Laying in the hospital bed
Watching every drug enter me
Through the IV, the battle
On the inside, slowly killing me.
No time to process how things went awry.
The only options are laugh, pray, and cry.
"This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that’s the way it’s going to be. We’re going down there, and we’re throwing everything we have into it, and we’re going to make it a success.”
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower