Sacred Actions Holy Ground

Sacred Actions Holy Ground

And so they went to war on the Holy Mountain

Filling the mountain and themselves full of holes

They died in brave terrifying crazy stupid ways

As is always the way in total fucking war

The red mountain soil stained even redder by their blood

Both American and Japanese soaking Mt Mataba bloody red

Dead soldiers littering the ground a wild wrong willful harvest

Peaceful in death in a way their leaders would never know

They died in certain ways created by ingenious humans and the Devil:

A mortar shell hit a box of phosphorous grenades and several fell into a foxhole

Igniting and burning an American soldier to a blackened crisp

One of the many wounded Japanese soldiers still resisted

With only his life to lose his torso torn virtually in two

A Yankee General went to the lines to see the action

And was shot dead thru his skull a top banana kill

A Jap manned a heavy machine gun his leg blown off at the knee

Finally silenced by a bullet with his name on it

This is how they fought for and on the Holy Mountain

Its sacred soil touched by actions and death and ghosts

Now forgotten by all but me and their God who remains silent

Was it worth it in the judgment of the karma scales?

If only I could see their deeds and talk to the ghosts

In a pointless war that was all for what?