Poem: 'R.E.D. (Remember Everyone Deployed) Acts 1 and 2' by Tanner Reiss

R.E.D. (Remember Everyone Deployed) Acts 1 and 2
by Tanner Reiss

I am not a hero
I am not made of stone
Take my statue down
I am alive, I survived
I love you
I hate you
I need you
But I'm not with you
I'm about to drown
Take my statue down!
Fight not for your place
Fight not to win this race
Fight not to fight
Ignite your light
To persevere that
Which yee doth not
Deserve. Serve to
Preserve the Mother
Of Nature,
Beauty in her simplicity.
Fight not for thy who
Survived, honour

Them not alive.
I love you
I hate you
I need you
But I'm not with you
I'm about to drown
Take my statue down!
Chaos of the calm,
Calm in the storm
Haunted by the sworm
Whirlwind hellfire
Now the norm
Encircle and wreathe
Seethe whilst I breathe.
I am not a hero
I am not made of stone
Take my statue down.
I am alive, I survived
I love you
I hate you
I need you
But I'm not with you

Set me FRAAAY
I am about to drown
Take that goddamn statue down!
Take this time to have a dance
Make this rhyme toll into a chance
Take this time to fall into trance
Spin and swirl, whirl and twirl
Forgotten son, Fallen girl
Float away so you may unfurl
I am sorry you could not save this world

Hurled into senseless battle
Souls, nerves, your brains rattle
But still you stood atop that hill
Wounded and hurt,
You tasted the dirt
Defending your fort
By explosion and eruption
A union of protection
Forged to become brethren
A brethern of R.E.D.

Take this time to have a dance
Make this rhyme toll into a chance
Take this time to fall into trance
Spin and swirl, whirl and twirl
Forgotten son, Fallen girl
Why is the world so cruel?
Why did we decieve the Golden Rule?
Fires burn, stomachs churn,
Off the highway, into Hell we turn
Chaos and violence we yearn
Now reap what we doth earn

Sacrifice, rank, name I learn
Please, God, let us never return.
Exclaimed in proclamation
"Claim not one more Nation!"
Forged to become brethern
A brethern of R.E.D.

Stand down, Soldier, please.
Calm your heart to ease

Rest amongst the trees
See how they swim like seas?
Eclipsing the hell you have seen
Elysium releasing crimson
Escape your mental prison
Angels in the clouds
Know you doth hath made us proud!
Take this time to have a dance
Make this rhyme toll into chance
Take this time to fall into trance
Wounded and hurt
You tasted the dirt
Defending your fort
By explosion and eruption
Forged to become brethren
A brethern of R.E.D

A brethern of R.E.D
Remember Everyone Deployed
Spin and swirl, whirl and twirl
Fallen girl, Forgotten son
Lay down your heavy gun
Your fight is finally done
Remember Everyone Deployed
May peace be the next war employed.

March 31st, 2022