King Leonidas 300 and Counting

King Leonidas 300 and Counting It was 480 BC King Leonidas with 300 Spartan warriors held Thermopylae Pass Fought against the vast immortals horde of Persian forces Lasted and endured the Xerxes army 3 days with 4,000 allied strong for Greece Resisting the first 2 days in mighty battle With only 1500 strong The third and final day belonged to Xerxes Leonidas lost 299 of his men to battle His allies also perished In the Persian wave of death that day The Gate Awaits Derivatives of angled forces bent on destiny Armored warriors spears and shields in hand In V shape lined to face the demon foe With swords extended confront a morbid horde Certain death to follow They stream upon their vile inhumanity Through history and to this very mortal day Nourished ground with noble blood To spring our civilization forth That which flows through time forever in our veins For freedom…. never sleeps…but pulses toward the light That final perfect design which defines us They are the souls of history 300 marched and died there in the sands Xerxes in his promise to erase all memories of Greece’s fame To destroy all poetry and poets (for that alone he should die) Now sleeps, the demon that he is, forever In an unknown grave And even I cannot pronounce or spell his name