Facing straight into my enemy’s line,
Waiting for orders from my officers,
The sky’s grey, our lungs fill’d o’smoke of burnt pine,
My fellows asleep; with tired faces of theirs,
This wild, quiet and hopeless field of doom;
The place once someone’s home soullessly strange,
The plain hill where no beauty left to bloom:
But the lifely life of our foes down range,
I saw them through my rifles scope aiming;
Observing and spying their behaviours:
Some of them smoking, some of them drinking,
Also: all of them look as tired as ours,
The wind blows slowly against my own hair,
The longest moment of peace I declare.