With fear and adrenalin   I go forward with the wave,   Sounds all around me   Cracking and thudding...   As I stumble for my footing, across the sand   The weight of my backpack, and rifle in hand.   A wish to discard it.   With flashes of light   And explosions of sound.   My legs feel like concrete,   Weight to be lifted, my head spinning around.   A surreal environment   I look All around.   Images, slow motion,   Muffled sounds.   People, dead bodies   Scattered on the sands.   I look at the confusion   And my turmoil and shaking hands.   Instinct kicks in to survive   Keep moving, keep moving   Over and over , voice in my mind...   Like a tape recording, find cover or die!   Keep moving, keep moving,   A soldier in front drops and dies...   I fall over him, into a crater piled high,   A fellow soldier   Stares, in front...   Tears not breaking, but still alive.   Emotions frozen, frozen in time   And nothing needs to be said,   We stay still, until, until...   We wait for our orders,   To bring sanity, once again   And not knowing when, or why.   Bullets spray the sands, in front of me   Just missing, I pray!   A period of clarity, rifle aimed   An object in sight, squeezed trigger, away...   I need to stop the bullets coming my way.   Hesitation, kill or be killed,   The voices, ring out, advance!   From a Sergeant Major   I can only glance!   I go forward with the wave,   No questions asked!   I go forward with the wave...   Sounds all around me,   Cracking and thudding...   As I stumble for my footing, across the sand   The weight of my backpack, and rifle in hand.   A wish to discard it.   With flashes of light   And explosions of sound.   My legs feel like concrete,   Weight to be lifted, my head spinning around.   A surreal environment   I look All around   Images, slow motion,   Muffled sounds   People, dead bodies   Scattered on the sands.   I look at the confusion   And my turmoil and shaking hands.