Call to Arms

Call to arms
Defend with pride
My dear country

I eagerly enlist
Rigorously I train
They happily ship

Over there
Here a war
A battle yet again

My country's honor
I must protect
Raise the banner high

Into the battle
I carry my blade
Ready to strike

Like a rich man's chattel
Where there is no shade
Helos hover like the shrike

Hornets slap the dune
My fort, I dig
Deep in the self filling sand

My helmet stifles
The rifle exposed,
Ablaze my hand

What a war
What a place
Here; Over there

Another move
Another hole
Dig in, ready? No

One more bomb
A man left dead
His body in shreds

No sleep tonight
The stars too bright
To fray my fright

Time to march
The daily routine
The endless desert

Shock waves rip through
Our ranks; make due
Bury them in the sand

To serve and protect
To fight and die
While media prattles

This time it was me
I had no chance to see
Only hearing a rifle's rattle

My body fell limp
The sand my shroud
A shallow grave

Send word to my mother
I died in another
War my country waged