Battle Cries

Hear, hear the battle cries
Beneath the empty, endless skies
Tears bleed red into the ground
Staining buried hope unfound
Souls streaked with sunken scars
Tracing the outline of fallen stars
That so long ago, once hung high
Taught the children how to fly

Hear, hear the battle cries
In a world shrouded in clouded lies
Starving children – collateral damage
Hungry in the hands of soulless savage
See, the child lying in the gutter
Another casualty of war, we utter
Lying in a wishful wait
Of the few that fight their fate

Hear, hear the battle cries
See the world through open eyes
Armed with all their hearts can afford
Broken in spirit, broken in sword
Blindly, they charge into the battlefield
With their body numbed; minds steeled
Still they cry, amidst the violence
Yet we sit still in a soundless silence