On The Battlefield
On the battlefield
Men with weapons to wield
For this land they fight
Risking the truth with the eternal light
Oh god send your hand
To take me from this dying land
Forsaking all the heart I could
Until I no longer gasped, I no longer stood
Should one day I fly
To where beliefs meet the eyes
Let god truly feel in me
All I am was who I was told to be
Do not judge me on these faintest of cries
nor till my mother hears me die
I do not spill blood for the sake of spilling blood
I'm here for this dirt, now blood filled into mud
Fate is a horrible thing
Takes men with a gut-awful swing
We are solders with our steel
Dying for what one man wrongly feels
With one flash, my back to the ground!
Full of men, in a heap, on a mound.
This is where I am to die!
On the battlefield is where I lye...
William Ogiba
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mmm....
interesting read....but I dont understand....in the second stanza u are asking for Gods hand?.....I thought u didnt beleive in God, anyway....this was a unique write and got me thinkin a bit.....u asked not to be judged in this write.....I like this as I hate being judged by any one who has no bloody right!....may I ask and u dont have to answer, but do u consider urself a leader or follower?
thanks for sharing ur write,keep it up.....peace :)
just my type of writing
yeah, i dont, but im writing as if im an average american soldier. christian and dying. its really not based on me. its based on my brother who died in iraq. i would see myself as a leader. i try making my own poetry as unique as i can. in that i am a leader. thank u for the comment and i will be returning the favor.
ok, cool....leaders are good!...heheh
any leader who doesnt lead a country is great in my eyes.its good u consider urself a leader, me too, but not just in poetry.....just in my way of life and my daughter, I must be a leader for her and what she comes to know in this damned earth.
Im sorry about ur bro, its unfortunate that so many ppl have to suffer from our 'leaders' and their crap decisions...oh well.....who are we to complain?,we're just leaders of our hearts and what we have to say is irrelevent in the eyes of the great big powers of our sappy leaders!......u take care bro, peace.
Simply right!
Its amazing, i mean, living in the US. Ive set up soo many anti-war marches but nothing gets done. So much shit happens, like darfur and rowanda. but the US turns its head like it did 66 years ago. WE, people like us, are the true leaders of life. i would take that ahead of all government leaders "benifits". u take care too, keep the government down, peace
well u know what.....
at least u try bro, not like some dozy dopes that sit and complain and do nothin.
dont u know, this will be recorded in history and only in 200 yrs will anyone ever really see the injustice and wrong of it all.....but for now....its all fine and dandy once ppl shut up and let their 'leaders' do what they gotta do no matter the cost or bloodshed!......long live ppl like us!
oh yes...
long live, but long lost. people like you and me are a dieing breed. people who fight for individualism and creatism. so how is it raising a child in the UK? i hope its not as bad as it is raising one here.... america is a country, in which i have no pride. for people america is pride, than for me, i have no country.
raising a child in the uk?....ooooooh let me tell u...
well, my munchkin is 2 but im dreading when she reaches the age of 10 and up...the uk, to put it mildly is just about as crap as america concerning the ppl being brainwashed and racist, however I imagine that america is way worse though I probably dont have a right to say that as I've never been there.
my ultimate plan is to just keep my head high through the flying bullets of the free west....their lies their way of life and their 'morals'.
to be honest I feel that if my little one has the sense to follow the belief of her mother than she will succeed in this land, as I truly in my heart believe what my faith has promised....it will free my ppl and free my path, what was promised to happen has moslty all happened so far so why should I quit believing it now?
we always knew the war would come about and we also knew that our leaders will drown us down with their plans.....all we are waiting for now is final war which is predicted to happen very soon, sooner than we'd all like.
the war of the muslims and christians united against the antichrist and jews, you'd have to be blind not to see that already unfolding......well......all I can say is Im just waiting in the uk but I really should head for the hills as the west will not be a pretty sight in the next mmmmm.....who knows 5-10 yrs....God knows....we just have to sit and wait I guess, untill then my friend ......peace.
respectable.
i respect that. i mean, religious people. because they did what i could not. i was raised catholic. and lets just say, it wasnt right for me. but you seem like your pretty believing. but religion, its just not for me. your from ireland, right? Thats really beautiful country. if u dont mind me asking, where is the father of ur child? u dont have to awnser, i was just wonderin if its the same for my sister.
Yeah u can ask me anything man.....
well, my mums Irish, my dads arab....my mum was a catholic but turned to islam when she was 17.....my babys dad....hehehe....what can I say...well....
hes a freak and he has never even asked about her, he lives about half an hour away and he has never seen her and wouldnt know her if she was right infront of him.....the sad part is that she looks exactly like him,
I just hope he doesnt turn up like in 10 yrs asking for her....in my eyes, he's dead and I hope he'll just dissapear into dust so that I never have to worry bout him trying anything funny like kidnapping her back to his homeland....I wouldnt put it past him....but as long as Im alive and kicking....I guarantee that will never happen!....wow telling u all that was a nice release....hehehe....peace.
yup, just like my sister.
The same things happend so my sister. by the way, i have 11 siblings. God, i hate guys like that giving the rest of us bad names. they tear apart womens hearts, then their too damaged for good guys like us to own. its depressing. but yeah, if u want too, i dont offer this to too many people. but send me an e-mail sometime. my address is packerdude74@hotmail.com. its up too you, u seem like a pretty well thought person, whos got it together.