What Price, Glory

Sing, do sing, fingers dance
over the strings of the bloody guitar.
We soldiers sing and dance
to a macabre tune
as our governments send us to war.

As thousands of us fall in death
and battlefields become gory,
Sing and dance to honor us,
but ask yourself,
What price, Glory?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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