signed to the message

do your bit for king and country. are you a coward? or are you brave? so now is the time to sacrifice you don`t want to let your mates down it`s a kinship of the soul you know that’s the Australian way it was the message that was kept being sold so they signed up in their droves but they weren`t told about the swamps of the sodden earth how the bitter cold chilled deep into your soul the rivers flowing red with blood across the sticky, stinking mud they didn’t talk about dying and left nameless, all alone on some far off foreign soil there is two sides to the coin they’re ears were filled with constant, never-ending crack of gunfire the booming sounds of mortar rounds the smell of death filled the air and the wind carried agonising screams and lifeless bodies laid skewn across this hell, everywhere but mans rage still went on when the sound of a whistle blew it was the time to give sacrifice so fast you had to charge and run because you didn’t want your turn to come the battlefield became a chess board where the generals positioned their pawns but it wasn`t them that paid the price it was a strategy that ended in tragedy and now its overseas where the true heroes lie and at home their loved ones are left with waterfalls of fallen tears ........... lest we forget-25/4