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''by [[Diomedes Sebastianus]] as an answer to the question "Why do you fight?". ''


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'''Not Just the List'''

Why, its been asked, do you submit to bruise?<BR>
Why pain and scars in conflict you choose?<BR>
Do you willingly battle for the right over wrong<BR>
When more often then not there's none to sing of your song?<BR><BR>
We pluck up our courage and form in our ranks,<BR>
Fall into file and push out our flanks.<BR>
It's forward we step into hell and harms way.<BR>
And fight to the end that we may claim ours, this day.<BR>
As a hope for the better in this world ripe and thick<BR>
With ills such as slander, discourtesy, and tricks.<BR><BR>
It is not just the lists and the fighters it fields.<BR>
It is us, and us all, and the dream which we wield.<BR>
When our voices are silent and our bones remain not,<BR>
Perhaps the cause will be noted, perhaps deeds not forgot.<BR>



© Mattyd
[[Category:Poems and Songs]]