Fixed Bayonets - Memoriam

Standing in line

Awaiting in the trenches

Now the order comes

Fixed bayonets

As the whistles blow

Over the top you go

Towards enemy territory

Fixed bayonets

Moving forward

Hold the line

The dead and wounded

Left behind

No place for fear

In your mind

Benevolence

Is now declined

Across no man’s land

Through unbroken defences

Weapon gripped in your hands

Fixed bayonets

Onwards you march

Past the point of endurance

At the edge of sanity

Fixed bayonets

Cheek by jowl

Fighting at close quarters

Face to face

Destroy the enemy

Into the breach

For God, king, and country

Amongst the adversary

Fixed bayonets

Fighting for your life

With grim determination

As the bloodshed flows

Fixed bayonets

Moving forward

Hold the line

The dead and wounded

Left behind

No place for fear

In your mind

Benevolence

Is now declined

Cheek by jowl

Fighting at close quarters

Face to face

Destroy the enemy