Soldiers Freedom

Standing in the trenches,
The sweat running down my face,
I adjust my steel pot
and increase my marching pace,

The day is hot,
steamy across the land,
you can see the heat,
on the distant sands,

My M-16 rifle is beside me,
I carry it so,
because the enemies of freedom,
are endless across the land,

They want to enslave us all,
under a blanket of their inept ideology,
However their army of misfits,
Will fall one by one.

Until freedom is boundless, prevalent, and wall-to-wall,
this soldiers job will never be done,
An endless struggle of epidemic proportions,
For freedom of the mind, heart, and soul suffers defeat;
Without the soldier's devotion to protect freedom and liberty for all.

Razorblade © 2011
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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January 11, 2012 at 6:07 AM
A warm welcome to PoetrySoup I offer to you Richard. I wish for you the best in your writing endeavors whatever they may be. May you find inspiration by reading some of the poetry written here by other poets. Read and comment on their's and they will return in kind. May the sun shine on you that you might find great joy in your life. Love and blessing always, Carol
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January 11, 2012 at 6:36 AM
Thank you so much Carol. I will do my best to split my time. Much of my writing is on Booksie.com/razorblade. I have many poems over there. Anyways thank you for welcoming me. I commented on your Happy Holidays poem this morning. God Bless, Razorblade!
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