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Fight Song (poem)

By Michael McGraw

Hypocrisy,
          a necessity,
          to send us all off to die.
The gutting of morals,
          surrounded with laurels
          of glory and other such lies.
Serves only the masters
          as we try to run faster,
          through the gauntlets of
          blood soaked mud and lye!
The art of the craven
          heart,
lies manifest in part,
disemboweling the soul from
          the eye!

—Michael McGraw