Brother's Blood

a blazing blast 
of sharp, eerie silence            
shatters, scatters away 
all memory of ever having  
a sense of hearing;
blinding lightning, 
dazzling flame, deathly white 

     far darker 
     than the darkest stormy night
     that wipes away 
     what's left of faintest sight;


crouching low, 
crawling slow through bloody mud,
wounded warriors, 
with their dying, with their dead,
themselves barely alive, 
through suffering they survive,
never pushed down, 

     never trampled upon 
     in ignominy,
     the blood bond 
     forged strongest by shared agony!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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