Most humans truly are like sheep
Wanting nothing more than peace to
keep
To graze, grow fat and raise their young,
Sweet taste of clover on
the tongue.
Their lives serene upon Life’s farm,
They sense no threat nor
fear no harm.
On verdant meadows, they forage free
With naught to fear,
with naught to flee.
They pay their sheepdogs little heed
For there is no
threat; there is no need.
To the flock, sheepdog’s are mysteries,
Roaming watchful round the
peripheries.
These fang-toothed creatures bark, they roar
With the fetid
reek of the carnivore,
Too like the wolf of legends told,
To be amongst
our docile fold.
Who needs sheepdogs? What good are they?
They have no
use, not in this day.
Lock them away, out of our sight
We have no need of
their fierce might.
But sudden in their midst a beast
Has come to kill, has come to
feast
The wolves attack; they give no warning
Upon that calm September
morning
They slash and kill with frenzied glee
Their passive helpless
enemy
Who had no clue the wolves were there
Far roaming from their Eastern
lair.
Then from the carnage, from the rout,
Comes the cry, “Turn the
sheepdogs out!”
Thus is our nature but too our plight
To keep our dogs on leashes
tight
And live a life of illusive bliss
Hearing not the beast, his growl,
his hiss.
Until he has us by the throat,
We pay no heed; we take no
note.
Not until he strikes us at our core
Will we unleash the Dogs of
War
Only having felt the wolf pack’s wrath
Do we loose the sheepdogs on
its path.
And the wolves will learn what we’ve shown before;
We love our
sheep, we Dogs of War.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne
Division
Vietnam 65-66
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
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