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Blessed are those who died in a just war

Blessed the ripe wheat gathered in sheaves

Blessed are those who died in the great battles

Stretched out on the ground in the face of God

Severed leg lies on the ground

Almost ridiculous in its horror

Revolting stench turns my stomach upside down

Flags don't wave higher

Than the corpses on the trees

Life doused in mire

Shake hands with dysentery

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Shallow graves in the trenches

Machine gun choir

Shell shock for a therapy

I'm smoking my prayer book

Just how much can a man endure

Effigies, amputees

Who's the real monster here

I shift my 1000-yard stare

Over the horizon of torn limbs & dashed hopes

And see the war to end all wars devour us voraciously

Shamelessly

Endlessly

We're 9 in a hole

Nothing will get us out of here

But we've eaten - we must relieve ourselves

The first of us to feel the urge climbs out

He's been there for 2 days now

10 feet away, killed, with his trousers down

We crap on paper and throw it up & out

When we have no more paper we go in our haversacks

The battle of Verdun continues

We go in our hands

Dysentery flows between our fingers

We crap blood, we go where we lie

We are devoured by flames of thirst

We drink our own urine

If we remain on this battlefield

It is because

They won't let us

Go

Away

There's no messiah