Chapter 1 - Blood (My Favorite Soldier Poem)

Red, red is all I see, red is all around me,

My comrades line the ground,

Torn and battered, and dying or dead,

I hear the fatal gunshots, as well as piercing screams,

I look upon my hands, but it is not them I see,

Instead red, red is all I see,

Staining deeply my clothes once black and green,

Now it is my turn to take a cannon shot, I strike a match,

And light it and the fuse goes out, a huge explosion,

And once again red, red raining down, I feel the drops,

On my face they drip to my open mouth, and that is when I fall,

To my knees and on my dying breath "Lord I'm coming home",

That's when I then saw black

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