Song: 'Hero Of War' by Rise Against
This is the song I've been looking for;
A cry about more than the scrape of battle
Or wars forlorn lessons
Drumming the ears of my clamor…
Within it, my hunger for its roar;
My gasping, a wounded animal
Whose blood pours over the trap
Sucking metal through the lungs…
(When’s the lesson to come shattering;
Tall shrieks of mortally wounded flesh
Pulling down the sun’s wagging fingers
Cremating the mounds of faded bone?)
Within it, my craving for its plot;
A thirst like a stream of broken rock
Whose dreary harbor offers no relief
From the weight of an eager famine…
This is the song I've been looking for;
A cry about more than the scrape of battle
Or wars forlorn lessons
Drumming the ears of my clamor…
Truth spilled from a bleeding warrior;
Fangs bared to ignite empire’s pennant
And confirm to the world an apparition,
A tragic ghost slumping over the sand…
© 2008 mrp/thepoetryman
