The Marines’ Lament
We’ve fought on many a batttlefield
across the world and back.
We’e now engaged with terrorists
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
We’re in a lengthy global war,
a fight to the bitter end.
Terrorists have vowed to kill us all.
We must not let them win.
We fight our battles anywhere,
from dawn to setting sun.
We fight with just one thought in mind
Our battles must be won.
But our bickering politicians persist
in thwarting us from within.
It would appear that many of them
do not want us to win.
“We are behind our troops ,” they claim.
“But this war can’t be won.”
So actually all they want to do
is turn tail, cut and run.
They do not stand behind the war
but they’re behind us, they say.
We would prefer they stand in front.
For them we will make way.
We fear that their support for us,
while we’re still in Iraq,
is not a pat on the shoulder,
but rather, a stab in the back.
It’s not for any of them we fight.
We fight for what is right,
for the principles of honor and faith,
now fading fast from sight.