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Machine guns blazing…  

As the advance guard

Makes its approach

Targeting …and bracketing…

Leading the assault

…into the labyrinth…   

 

Protection

Of the homeland,

And our families, a necessity…  

Against

Oppressive forces,

Practicing inhumanity

 

Seeking to extinguish…

Our hold …on liberty…  

 

Democracy

…they don’t believe…  

 

Just Us, they say…

Exists “for us”

 

Though not

…for you and me…  

 

Battle scarred remnants  

Of the invading …horde…  

 

Neutralizing …strong points  

Key components …in the struggle  

 

As the tides… begin to turn…  

Soldiers perform miraculous feats

 

Courageous talents reach their peak

 

Demonstrating …focus… 

With drive and intensity…  

 

Cool, clean… methodical…

In the execution… of force…  

 

Creating a cascade failure  

Openly exposing weaknesses

 

To be readily exploited…  

In effort to destroy

 

The enemies ability

…to respond, in kind  

 

As the skirmishes …continue…  

Younger soldiers gain confidence  

 

Counter attacks

Are buffered and contained

 

Endgame nears…

Blood, sweat and tears

 

Lawmen, men of soul…

Step up… to the challenge…    

 

Square off

Against their opponents

 

Taking aim… with principles engrained…  

Battling principalities, nothings changed…  

 

Empowered… in lessons learned over time

 

Enemy forces …begin to break…  

 

First to the right, then to the left…   

Good, bad… or ugly…

All, must face …the test…

 

Trying at first,

To fight their way out  

 

Their bullets …and conscience, spent…

Lost souls… falling back …to earth…

 

Hearing the final call…  

Ready or not …here, it comes…

 

Fearing a rout …making a last ditch

…effort to escape…too late,  

 

Cut off from their intended route…  

Left to surrender to their fate  

 

Then, just drop their weapons

…and run…   

 

Mortar rounds …exploding

Pounding targeted grounds

 

Phosphorus shells incinerate all remains

…to nothing dust… a fine bloody mist

 

Falling …like particulate rain

 

Wreaking havoc…

On the evil source…

 

Crying in pain…

Feeling the anguish…

 

As the fierce battle claims its due…

The killing storm follows its course

 

On those remaining few

Assessments …are made…

 

Tallies of graves planned

…losing more even as we gain…

Spiritual markers which turned the tides

Which ruled the day…

Wounded souls are tended  

Loaded on carriages

Addressed respectfully    

Prayed over …reflectively…    

And …hauled away…

And all rejoice…

 

Once more, as…

 

One love, is…

All…  

 

Restored

 

 

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