Blood in the Water

By: Gus Victoria

Blood in the water,

The remnants of progress,

Sharks circle,

Greed in their eyes,

A frenzy about to commence,

They smell your fear,

Growing bolder,

Swimming near,

Our ship sank,

Guided to wreck,

Unable to weather a storm,

Unwilling to change course,

They sense the gore

Of those weaker still,

The chum of society

Draws them close,

If sharks could grin,

Secure, they know

We lose, they win,

And now we drown,

As they feed,

Blood in the water,

Now we drown,

As they feed.

Johnny and Billy

By: Gus Victoria

Johnny Reb, Billy Yank, why do you fight?

Brothers in blue and grey,

Was there no other way?

Was division so deep

Blood was your only bridge?

Fighting for a nation,

Your nation,

A country neither of you had seen,

A country given birth by your sacrifice,

No confederacy survived,

A Union was transformed,

Johnny, your body lies still at the altar of history,

Your yell echoes through time,

Billy, your courage has ever only had one equal,

That of your fallen brother.

Dixie was our second birthplace,

A baptism in fire,

Johnny and Billy did you know then?

What your struggle meant?

Generations pass,

And your memory is sacred,

Your sacrifice hallowed,

No Confederate,

No Rebel,

No Yankee,

Johnny and Billy,

Only Americans.

Bellicose Harvest

By: Gus Victoria

Cold steel plows the land,

Blood soaks the soil

To grow the terrible harvest

That shades will reap,

The heroes fight no more,

Enshrined in glory,

Buried in earth,

Gaunt figures of State

Cry their valor

To the living.

The dead cannot object.

Gratitude flows from noble hearts

Beatifying the fallen,

To fill halls of honor,

No justice stands

To give form,

Only destructive chaos reigns,

Stalwart against humanity,

Darkness and the thick fog of regret

Sacrifice the future

Of a forgotten dawn,

Love drowns

As bullets fly,

Love cries,

As hope dies.