Iced up rivers rolling to hell <br />Shivering souls greater than I <br />The horse shit and gun smoke, the deathly smell <br />Of a battle for the reason why <br /> <br />Biting cold and broken bones <br />The bullets...they hit like boulders <br />To feel the numb and endless pools of frozen blood <br />And the mettle of a soldier <br /> <br />The mission was long forgotten <br />The glory, no more than a sigh <br />We paid the price with frozen flesh <br />And the treason of a spy <br /> <br />To live another battle to give another day <br />Of life upon an earth that treats better her cattle <br />Lying barefoot in fields of wicked frozen clay <br />If this is life, then this is my reply <br />That dying's not too much trouble <br />In a battle for the reason why<br /><br />Daniel Richmond<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/frozen-soldiers/
