War!

Thus deepened the chilling silence
The spirits still walked in defiance
On the land, where they as living
Had fought for their land, their mother’s keeping

Ten thousand men met their end
Fighting the war while trying to defend
Their land from the attacker’s lustful crave
But the battles lead but to the grave

Some fight for their motherland
Some fight for their Kings
But why fight for whatever reasons
‘Tis only death that it brings?

The weapons unsheathed, the swords and shields
The men sound their battle cry.
Not to show their wrath, but to hide their fear
For they know they are to die

The kings order their armies around
Each man to him is but a pawn
But what difference does it make
Since only the kings see the next dawn

They go, they go, to battle, to war
To fight, to slay, their enemies to mar
But will they be back from the battle
To kiss their child, to feed their cattle?

Why fight if it only brings the doom?
The clouds of death, on a battlefield forever they loom.
And take away a father, a brother
Or give great grief to a mother

War or Peace? I shall choose the latter
To get a chance to hear the happy chatter
But my children now live away far
Because I am dead, I died in a war.