I thought I could write and essay style answer to the questions given, but I know that everyone else is doing the same thing, and that can get rather tedious. So I thought I would use a different style. (Feel free to let me know if you notice a typo)
Dig Down
We have been called
From our homes sunny and bright
To kill our brothers many
We’ll be back by Christmas
The government officials said
Bloody liars
Rifles cough
Quickly bolted
While the artillery echoed
A great tremendous sound
That soon forced us underground
To hide away in dirt from pain
And the shells
That all around us fall
In the dirt we dig down
In ground we are found
With all the snakes and rats
To no man’s land I never wish to go
“Over the top”
Assisted suicide in my mind
The government officials call it
“A war of attrition”
They got that one right
But we’ll be the ones to bled
Not them
The food we steal
From citizens we’ll never see
And if we get home
Our families will never understand
This time we spent
Facing no man’s land
There are no heroes here
Only the dead
Upon which the rats feed
And the rest of us
Tomorrow’s meal
My ears hum
While my throat slowly chokes
What ever part of me doesn’t go
Disease will have instead
Gangrene, typhus, cholera, and dysentery
I believe to be my worst enemies
As the gas comes once again
I’ll put my face in a mask to save
Here we stay
Through the day and night
We cannot run away
This war is stagnant
Mobility was lost long ago
In the trenches we’ll give our souls
“Ils ne passeront pas"
Machine gun clicks and sounds
While breathing mustard clouds
Sinking in mud
“This is how the world ends”
“Ich gebe auch”
The last words I suppose I’ll ever hear
Since I decided to dig down
Dig Down
We have been called
From our homes sunny and bright
To kill our brothers many
We’ll be back by Christmas
The government officials said
Bloody liars
Rifles cough
Quickly bolted
While the artillery echoed
A great tremendous sound
That soon forced us underground
To hide away in dirt from pain
And the shells
That all around us fall
In the dirt we dig down
In ground we are found
With all the snakes and rats
To no man’s land I never wish to go
“Over the top”
Assisted suicide in my mind
The government officials call it
“A war of attrition”
They got that one right
But we’ll be the ones to bled
Not them
The food we steal
From citizens we’ll never see
And if we get home
Our families will never understand
This time we spent
Facing no man’s land
There are no heroes here
Only the dead
Upon which the rats feed
And the rest of us
Tomorrow’s meal
My ears hum
While my throat slowly chokes
What ever part of me doesn’t go
Disease will have instead
Gangrene, typhus, cholera, and dysentery
I believe to be my worst enemies
As the gas comes once again
I’ll put my face in a mask to save
Here we stay
Through the day and night
We cannot run away
This war is stagnant
Mobility was lost long ago
In the trenches we’ll give our souls
“Ils ne passeront pas"
Machine gun clicks and sounds
While breathing mustard clouds
Sinking in mud
“This is how the world ends”
“Ich gebe auch”
The last words I suppose I’ll ever hear
Since I decided to dig down
Last edited by J. Loomis on Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:47 am; edited 1 time in total