His eyes
those gray abodes
that hover here between
the reasoned thought
and insanity's grain
Drives the full burden
where thoughts caught
flood the mind
that pulsating brain
to the quivering moment
that faded breath
The diluted eyes
that brother to brother filled
Gasped the jaws where mingled
Upon deaths final yell
that despair that wings
upon the battlements
roars its demonic face to the winds
and gathers the legions of the fallen
The scared and brave alike
That share the burdened dream
where haunts his thoughts
His gray eyes defiled still peer
where blade and bullet
together encased
In the members of his race.

Alisdaire O'Caoimph