To A Soldier

 

Multivariate possibilities of life

Surging up through swelling veins

Brings consciousness to strife

 

No merely insensate wielded knife

Not unaware, but cognizant of

Multivariate possibilities of life

 

Gauging step to drum and fife

Aware of sacrifice, of cost

Brings consciousness to strife

 

Questioning may yet be rife

Why me, why this, of every

Multivariate possibility of life?

 

Images of home, of wife

Juxtaposed against those others

Brings consciousness to strife

 

Hold yet, beyond this circumference

Hopes of something more than death

Multivariate possibilities of life

Brings consciousness to strife