Eleven Bravo Invocation
      by gary mcginnis

please save us from mayhem
  and escort us still living
through harsh green thickets
  of sprawling lime jungles
where life walks on brave legs
  oh please none be mangled
    be lost or be torn
where faces fly by us
  in the nights of our thinking
as we sleep under stars
  mosquitos to share
and then there's the whisper
  we hear it like humming
but the others find rest
  within four wooden walls
let us wade through this time
  with only brief sorrow
may our minds remain strong
  and think nothing of sinking
so low in the distance
so low as our graves