Initiate 2008

narrative verse

 

Initiate 2008

 

 Reveille sounds a trumpet call

Rise from your beds reluctantly

This wake up call applies to all.

 Strident with authority.

 

We do things militarily.

 You will now wash and shave your face

You signed on voluntarily

 and now you have to earn your place.

 

 A raw recruit’s of little use

still tainted by civilian ways

A subject for stripeys abuse.

Of sympathy there’s little trace,

 

For drill instructors have no hearts.

Their job to turn boys into men

Reveille sounds and the day starts,

 Your protests must remain unspoken.

 

You’ll be harassed from morn til night.

Your only duty to obey.

 Until you learn to get it right

and do things in the army way.

 

If you survive and make the grade.

One of the few the very few

 to reach the passing out parade.

Your parents will be proud of you

 

Though it was tough you had enough

 pride in yourself to stick it out.

Showed you were made of sterner stuff

 than those who failed without a doubt.

 

You proved yourself to be a man

So wear your uniform with pride,

 you earned the right. You know you can

succeed although you were sorely tried.

 

You did what you set out to do

achieved the goal you had in mind

You toughed it out and saw it through.

Now you can leave boot camp behind

 

In coming years you will recall.

When you must face the enemy

and see your fellow soldiers fall .

Your boot camp days nostalgically.

 

25-Aug-08

 

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