Self-Sacrifice

Easy to say, yet

Too distant to know that

So many who went

Did not return home,

Falling victim instead to

Self-sacrifice, 

Lost to the twilight

Of bleak catacombs.

 

And none can imagine

His unselfish loyalty

Save for the brothers who

Stood by his side,

Who tendered their service

In liberty’s kinship,

Carried her banner

With honor and pride.

 

He asks for no pity,

Not tributes or tears,

He charges no onus to

Kismet or fate

For he knows retribution

Aligns with the ages,

Arrayed at the aperture of

Heaven’s gate.