Into the Cruicible

I can never begin, to explain what its like, To have concoured such things, As the crucible hike, "72" hours of torchering pain, Which only got worse as it started to rain, "6" hours of sleep, very little to eat, Some recruits dropped overcome by the heat, On the last day we head for the reaper, Into the mountains we hike deeper and deeper, "80" pounds on our back, m16 on our side, We start ascending the mountain, Screaming painfully inside, Though it felt like forever, we'd finally arrived, Beyond exhausted and sleep deprived, At the top of the mountain, had to hold back the tears, Hadn't felt as much honor, in all of my years, Some thought they'd been dreaming, some wild cartoon, We had finally overcome it,as a team, a platoon!!!