Speeches in the night.

written during taiwan missions 08
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tired
broken
unsure 


all pieces of the old world, the incompletion
soldiers take arms
you're not done yet, but remember that you are going Home
i know the corpses that line this place
stain your very soul,
and with the polluted air it gets hard to breathe, sometimes
but remember redemption
don't you dare forget
the First Battle, the First Victory
our King won for us
soldiers you are at the command of that which is
greater than death, greater than fear, greater than
the cold which grips you at night,
when you have been beaten down so much you don't even know
why you are fighting anymore
you are at the command of El Shaddai,
First and Last, He who is the great I AM,
the unchangeable, eternal, unstoppable.
Soldiers, look around at this wasteland.
It will be changed in the blink of an eye
the angels know it, our great cloud of witnesses know it,
our commander knows it,
but do you know it?