Ready. Aim. Fire! ! Poem by Ryan Joseph Holder

My fingers are bleeding
My knuckles are sore
We're finally coming
To an end with this war
The fighting
The bleeding
The wanting
The needing
The everlasting
Endless sorrow
Praying that
We'll see tomorrow
My hands are tainted
With blood of the innocent
It's just a few murders...
It can't be significant...
Evacuate
Go....run and hide
A murderer is
Among you tonight
Am I to blame
For all this brutality?
I killed a father
In front of his family
I can trust no one
Inside of this canyon
My knife and my rifle
Are my only companions

...But now.....
I'll end this tonight
I'll gather my courage
And stand up and fight
Against all this carnage
Nothing will stop me
No one will live
It's not in my nature
To ever forgive
I'll take down the army
I'll take down the man
I'll make sure that no one
Dies for this again! !
We fight for you
We fight for me
We fight for god
And our country
We die for everything
That we admire
Lock and load boys...
Ready. Aim. Fire! !

(Dedicated to my good friend Anthony Guadamuz! Good luck in the Marines Corps!)

(Inspired by M.I.A. ~ Avenged Sevenfold)

(Additional thanks to all our military forces and to all the men who fight for what they believe in and what is right...whether it be now or then....Here or there...fight for your rights...always! !)