This Poem was Submitted By: James Gavin Consiglio On Date: 2001-12-13 08:52:34 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Don't Ask Why!

Over the top we go boys, Over the top we go. Certain death a fate you know, When over the top we go. Over the top we go boys, Over the top we go. Cross the line of no return, Run into hell’s pitched storm, Many will die in vein here boys To the bugles charging horn. A piece of land before us, Paid in full with blood and toil, Lost again a hundredth time, Un-godly costly soil. Can’t move forward, Can’t fall back, Can only hear the rifles crack, Smoke, dust, mustard gas, Satan’s fury about us cast. Bayonet, Lance, Wire walls, A hundred bodies before us fall, Stepping on their lifeless bones, Occasionally to hear a moan. The bugle stops, Trench is breached, Enemy dead, Before our feet. So tired and wasted,  To numb to cry, Just load your rifle, And don’t ask why.

Copyright © December 2001 James Gavin Consiglio

Additional Notes:
World War One.


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