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The Canon Part II
Contributed by
scott
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Wednesday, 18th February 2004 @ 07:42:09 PM in AEST
Topic:
oops
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I am warm
I am flesh
I have died on countless battlefields
For those principles that I hold in my heart
Even unto its final beat
I am charlatan
Some men I hate for no reason
Some men I kill for no reason
I justify each thrust of my sword
Each crimson stream I invite from another
Each soul I send to what may be hereafter
With a squeeze of a lever and a blur of sulfur
I feel each scream
As if it issued from my own throat
I feel the rifle
Steady in my hands
An extension of my own efficiency
At once bitter, deadly, calculated
At once a confused effigy of emotion in the fray
The bayonet glimmers off its end
Each time I pierce a man
I pierce my soul
And tears run of its steel end
As blood from my heart
I call myself pure
I call myself a child of god
I call myself a husband, father, son
I die a soldier.
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Re: The Canon Part II
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by spider on
Monday, 8th March 2004 @ 04:47:21 PM AEST
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| can't beleive no-one's reviewed this - is amazing. and i really mean that. there are some people who you really wish you could live uup to their standard, even though you know you never will, you're one of them. |
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