The Time Has Come, Our Destiny Awaits
Behold the enemy before our gates
Who deign to slit our throats like sheep this day.
The time has come; our destiny awaits.
We kill or die. There is no other way.
Beside us stand our wives and family
Whose fate, along with ours, is joined as one.
For if we falter, they will never see
Again, the rising of another sun.
The trumpet sounds, we stand as one to fight;
With thrust of spear and pike, with steel and stone,
With sweep of sword and taut-strung arrow’s flight
Our foes shall reap the evil they have sown.
E’en unto death, give all you have to give,
Yet do not fight to die, but fight to live.
September 22, 2020
Copyright © James Tweedie | Year Posted 2020
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