The Daily Poem

WE FALL TO RISE AGAIN

Compelled we stand to fight the wolf of pain,

Where men of valor fought and died before.

We stand to fall, we fall to rise again.

The earth gives way beneath what we attain;

Our courage counts in steps but little more.

Compelled we stand to fight the wolf of pain.

The wind awakens voices of the slain

To fill our ears with an empty howling roar.

We stand to fall, we fall to rise again.

The water drowns our breaths with whipping rain,

And the rivers froth us down upon the shore.

Compelled we stand to fight the wolf of pain.

The fire in our bellies, though it wanes,

Returns ferocious to the raging war.

We stand to fall, we fall to rise again.

The wounds of battle bleed but never drain

The deepest blood that feeds our purest core.

Compelled we stand to fight the wolf of pain;

We stand to fall, we fall to rise again.

D. Edgar Lamp

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Villanelle

Lemoore, California

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