I saw soldiers in pain, <br />some shot up, soldiers wounded <br />and some bandaged <br />doing their duty <br />and some even going insane, <br /> <br />I saw heroic men <br />going far beyond duty <br />not thinking of themselves <br />and more about the welfare of others <br />and some of them were doing exceptional things. <br /> <br />The were men who lived as if today <br />was the only day and if tomorrow <br />would never come <br />and all of them to me <br />were the greatest of men, <br /> <br />but then there were bullets holes <br />even on the church wall <br />like the blasphemies of man <br /> <br />chipping away at the greater good <br />where a minister of God stood <br />with a bible in his hand <br /> <br />and that holy man had something <br />clinging to him, as if God Himself <br />surrounded, embraced him <br />with utter goodliness, being humble and sincere <br />and that was something greater <br />than any man I ever had met.<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/something-greater/
