Worldly Desire VIII: The War Man

All our consoled youths

deprived of nature

All our compromised truths

derived from nature

Let the world witness the bravery

the passion and the bloodshed

the will to overcome the adversary

life in an unstable flood shed

There is the War Man

for everything comes and goes with him

for everything drowns and flows with him

for everything is with him

for the War Man never yields

nor will he ever crash into the shallowest seas

nor will he ever grow the mellowest trees

for he will persist even after death

for the war is only beginning

For the battles come and go

so simply, so hastily

so sorry for all that it caused

all bonds that are broken and lost

For the goriest stories were not told

they were meant to be put on hold

The friendliest comrades, all unmasked

all willing to be suitably tasked

There is the War Man

whose rifle never runs out of ammunition

who trifles nightfall without communication

who insists that the war will go his way

who sacrifices himself to be the War Man

It is the War Man

with many worldly desires

Yet it is the War Man who falls

Yet it is the War Man who loses the war