Long, straight; see the swells
Marching – regimented – across a farther sea.
Too far removed are regimented waves
From marching regiments
Time past has introduced and left behind.
Regiments marching stepping
Marching to their battle cries;
Horribly beweaponed, hardly able to show
Humanity in their dehumanistic ranks.

Regimented waves travel oceans undaunted
To pound their fury on an inanimate shore;
Our marching faces, stepping
Marching stepping, still horribly beweaponed,
Dauntless cross farther borders in
A quest of leaders’ greed,
Ready to pound another’s fury on the
Animate annals of history.

Watery and semi-human regiments both show unity
In straight and uniform lines,
Marching as one:
One unit of ocean or faction or nation.
But I shun to think
That only inanimate waves
Show the mercy
Animate men should have.