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Barditus Dei (Free verse) by antoniojl
I see them again, now
Marching through red seas
Dying tides with blessed rain
Screaming in my name...
Screaming in vain.
Well, are you fighting for God
Or praying for war?
Charlatan chaplain cants faith
Preaching last rites
For last wrongs
Little knowing that pious pleas
Are less use to fighting men
Than a prayer before the war
In God ye trust
But mans hand guides those missiles
Not mine
Another sacrifice
Another war crime.
Gods men may yet fight in hell...
Themselves.
They fall in faith
Fatal folly
Failing to find
The truth behind
Their armoured minds
Jew, Gentile, Nazi, Nato...
Its Just war.
But yet more rounds fall to the floor...
As before.
And still you fight your holy wars
And curse your foes with holy words
And carve your graves in graven cross
When will you learn
In war, salvation's lost
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