by Thomas Emmon Pisano

Created on: July 07, 2009

You Have Seen the Fires in the Sky?

(original verse)

The motion of the war ships foaming wake

Batting up against the red streaked and grayish hull

The rolling of the cannons thunders break

Upon the blackened enemies distant skull

The battle rages with out a break all threw the night

A screaming shell, a dragon, thrown through the air

We watch these rockets, hurled away and out of sight

Again to fall into our grim enemies hidden lair

Our rolling hull pushed by cannons forceful fiery thrust

The fireball falling like a deadly star so true

The shock of cannons fire a holy must

To break the rock of the ancient fortress threw and threw

Off in the distance we see the hellish glow

Of blasted time torn castles crumbing wall

The masters' works of gunners' efforts grow

From within the turrets of the war ships masts so tall

Again and again the volleys exploding burst

Into the night we see the fires burning strong and bright

We hope our hard work and efforts will thus be first

To crush the strength of our enemies endless fight

Hot torpedoes submerged and running true

Our grayish hull exposed, smashed and burning

Our men are screaming, down in the fires below and threw

Their finished lives so crushed and yearning

We fought a battle with efforts that were good and true

Our young men valiant, strong, brave and skilled

Dedicated to our flag and colors, red, white and blue

Our young men turned to age, how quickly they were killed

We count the dead with fingers pale and poll

We see the totals in papers, the news so prim

We are a nation of politicians with blemished souls

Does no one see the hideous, truth apparent, and so grim?

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