The Red Road

The Battalion set out through the fields Over mountain tops under cover of the night Moonbeams flushed with shadows of clouds Provided a permanent array of light Two by two the marched softly side by side Anonymous to trees and staying out of sight Dawn cracked the early morning sky Geese flying in its wake before daylight The Enemy would meet them in the valley below The Red Road Crossing staging for the fight The archers prepared bows and quivers Swordsmen and those with spears upright And behind them the Calvary on steeds Snorting and dancing Riders glued on tight The Bugler signaled the troops all let loose Cannons propelling shrapnel in the morning light Horses and men a muddled mess of torture And bravery a Calvarys' last fight The ground which was brown was now a deep red For the blood of the Battle had soaked in the night And the ghost of these Men and their horses as well Haunt The Red Road on the eve of that fateful night.