A warrior I have always been
To show weakness, Would be as a mortal sin

Within my heart, I can never let anyone near
But secretly
I desire the touch of someone, I could hold dear
Surrender myself, tell to them my innermost fear
And be near to them year after year

I have gone into battle many times with my men
My dreams and hopes, would look like a weakness to them

A wife and a family to call my own
A place I could go and truly call home

Then if I should die in a land far from home
I’d know someone cared
I would not die alone

But if it should be in the ways of time
A wife and family shall never be mine

Then let my blood on this battle field stain
I have no better place to go
I will be one, who shall remain

Let me take the place of the man with a wife and home
Let him live
Return to wife and child so they don’t live alone

If this should be, when I die let this man stand near
I will wish him, God speed you home
Dying alone was my greatest fear