SOLDIERS DO NOT DIE----A TRIBUTE TO LATE FIELD MARSHAL!
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TIME TO GO---DEAR FIELD MARSHAL!
Gaiety, pomp and show?
Do less appear it look more;
Salute, turn and salute,
‘Yes Sir’, always and say no more;
‘Live and let live’ adhere to it,
And raise you never your eye-brows;
Self- interests must remain supreme!
Then, praise your ‘Boss’ and ever crow;
If these are the morals of military regime-
Your time is up, dear SAM, You must go.
Alas! In the battle they don't score,
As the rules there turn upset down;
The one who salutes and talks more,
The leader must always frown;
Whence under the battlefield sky-
The bullets fly like a tidy flow;
And falling men around you cry-
Dampening you with spirits down;
A 'SAM' would say, "One-more-try'-
We might beat the opposing clowns".
Cruising along the glacier slopes,
With hurricane winds and icy mast;
Men do give up and some do fall,
Peace time ‘goodies’ are first to dart;
When each one has fallen-
And you, too, are losing heart;
Whence hopes no more sustained,
And ‘death' seems the only award,
Should a man blaze the trail in snow ?
Well! In crisis, he is the trump card;
Remember! And remember for ever,
Peace time soldiering is one big farce;
People will talk and men do boast,
Of deeds performed almost false;
Distrust, if you can , trust you never ,
Those who dance at your beck and call;
For, if the going is good, the suckers, –
Squat at your feed and make you tall;
Should you be by the fate troubled-?
Disappear they before lightening falls.
"A soldier and a General", so said 'Sam',
"Must shun peace time gimmicks;
Must one know on one’s action;
Destiny of many soldiers blinks;
Never give ears to sycophants,
Lest in war you may sink;
Discourage flattery by all means,
Discreetly axe dissidence;
Select your men as you will,
True test come when crisis descend!"
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