A Civil End

Footsteps marking steadied time

Men lined up in a row

We sing a song of strength and will

Our steps left in the snow

 

My mind holds back my Lover's face

What Fates I'm doomed to meet

The only thoughts that sieze my mind

Are shoes to warm my feet

 

We hear the shouts and gunshots ring

Both sides run through the mud

And as the sun is sinking down

It turns the hue of blood

 

Brothers fought against their own

Blues and Greys collide

And Fear held me in his embrace

As he would hold his bride

 

I fire once and watch to see

Where my bullet might fly

I watched it bite a boy my age

I watched him slowly die

 

I dropped my gun in guilt and fear

My vision blurred in tears

If Death should choose to take me soon

I beg him take me here

 

A shot rang out and all goes still

It slowly stops my breath

A Calm that I have never known

Flows on the tide of Death

 

And may the Angels gather me

As fast as sparrows fly

To where the hate can't touch me

As it did the day I died

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