Missiles arcing, fire baking.
Metal gleaming, chunks flying.
Wrecks steaming, pilots dying.
Valor proven, honor won.
Corpses stinking in the noon day sun.
For what do we sacrifice our bodies and minds?
A chance to win a medal? Walk away with first prize?
We fight and we die, do it over again.
Weapons of destruction hurl death at our men
And women, lest we forget, gender matters not.
Nor race, red the only color we've got.
To prove our worth, bleed not for powers that be.
Protecting our clansmen our dying creed.
For what do we do these acts to each other?
To protect the backs of our sisters and brothers.
I watch your back, and you watch mine.
Together we'll take the many niodes we find.
To strengthen our steeds, the metal creatures we feed.
And hurl them back into the fray, come what may.
Submitted by Brian Lee #896391