The Commander

The quote is from Sun Tzu:

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

THE COMMANDER

The discipline was tough to take

The rigors of war would do us in, I thought

But in time we learned we were his son's and daughters

We were tough, able, and obviously we'll taught

There was never somewhere he would send us

Where he would not go in there first

We found he would give up his last drop of water

To quench a soldier's thirst

The harsh words that he bellowed

When one of us would screw things up

Proved many times to save our lives

Things were harsh, man, but there was trust

He put on a tough and heartless front

But one day I saw the tears in his eyes

He tried to hide them but I know they were there

When there were brutal, permanent good-byes

I'd follow this brute to hell and back

Never hiding from the battle call

He was the man he had to be

And a father to us all