Lined-up formations look impressive,
But is their inner strength truly such?
Comfortable in paradise, and hell ahead,
Even the support of friends has weakened, crumbled.

Shall we surrender? Shall we retreat?
Shall we take the flags down from the bridges?
… Other than with blood, we will not buy freedom.
Necessarily our own. And we know this.

We need nothing that is another’s,
Ours we must stand for.
With the support of heaven
We will have to kill the enemy,
As