How you gonna tell him he misrepresent,
When God said keep your sword in hand.
Gun on his hip, he's driving his lorry.
F*ck the lables, he's writing a story.
Flip these tables, he's proving his ori.
On his wrist a choral,
"momento mori".
He knows,
Everyone in the plane is mortal.
He knows the world is fatal,
He seems informal.
He's a corporal,
Warding demons from American soil,
To Portugal.
LUKE 22:36.
Laid true since,
Before they loaded guns with sticks.
His badges torn to reduce risks,
It's him under his units.
Through a river, through the styx.
Sure to deliver them through the mist,
Should we sink to the riverbed,
Should he bring their enemies with his bitter end.
© rossdops

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