Today We Leave - PADCC Day 10

Today we leave, at bitter dawn

to find the strength to travel on

And though our search is all in vain

We soldier on, through sun and rain

For we have come here, just to fight

From fading dark to morning light

We stain the trees a brilliant red

And have no time to mourn the dead

We sleep, we scream, we carry on

Each of us, a simple pawn

Though we are soldiers, made of stone

We still miss our life back home

Lockets, letters, pictures, too

Remind us of the life we knew

And though my heart and face are stone

I still miss my world back home

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Prompt: going somewhere

I may revise this

I don't want it sitting in my drafts anymore :(

#poetry