… To End All Wars

Didn’t want to get involved, but

Someone had to end the mess;

Those adolescent-acting oafs, so deep

Entangled in distress.

 

A spider’s web of horror

Overshadows “over there”, and

They need to halt the madness

E’er it migrates “over here”.

 

So, off the Doughboy goes to

Crush the Kaiser’s horrid hordes,

And vows he’ll not return until

He’s stilled the rattled swords.

 

Through the muck and mist and mire of

A wretched no-man’s land,

Inch by inch and trench by trench

He clashes hand to hand.

 

Into the deep perdition,

Arising from the catacomb,

Fulfilling every promise

Til sweet victory brings him home.

 

And now the task, the fearful task

That victory implores,

That this ungodly struggle be

The war to end all wars.