What Is a Soldier

Honor
is a blazing sun
proud and radiant
defiant against the darkness

Brotherhood
is an unbroken link
bonding those shattered
to make each other whole

Valor
is a unified rock
unwilling to weather
in the face of a storm

Sacrifice
is a gift
disguised as
misfortune

Heroism
is a raging fire
that runs into the breach
though water waits to greet it

Vengeance
is a bullet fired
that defies natural law
and seeks with burning inte