The Call To Combat

Beachhead reached in broken silence
 Do or die is here
 Rifle clutched in white knuckle grip
 Choking back the fear
 Bodies falling one by one
 Upon the deadly march
 Sky lit up with mortar fire
 To death our only course
 The call to combat - plunged into a firestorm
 A tempest with no eye
 The call to combat - knee deep in bodies
 Baptized by cannon fire
 The call to combat - the will to fight is shattered
 No choice but to march on
 The call to combat - a deadly game of life and death
 Where meet our fate as pawns
 Casings fall amongst the dead
 Marking killing trail
 We meet our fates on roads well tread
 Slaughtered to what avail?
 Soldiers calling two by two
 Voices lost in battle's din
 The earth split open, stained with blood
 A coffin to crawl within
 The call to combat - plunged into a firestorm
 A tempest with no eye
 The call to combat - knee deep in bodies
 Baptized by cannon fire
 The call to combat - the will to fight is shattered
 No choice but to march on
 The call to combat - a deadly game of life and death
 Where meet our fate as pawns