Tomoe Gozen

 
She sits alone in the darkness,    
Her face awash with tears;    
Not from worry or misgivings.    
Her heart endures no fears.    
     
This night is the eve of battle;    
She will command the host.    
By unanimous acclamation,    
She took her fallen husband's post.    
     
Her army will engulf the foe    
Like a cruel, relentless, flood.    
The sacred earth will run dark red      
With her adversaries' blood.    
     
Still, quietly, she sits and weeps    
Though victory's doubt is nil.    
It's a woman warrior's lot to mourn    
The men she's going to kill.    
   
     
Tomoe Gozen was a twelfth-century female Samurai warrior, famed for her courage    
and ferocity in combat. She was proclaimed a national hero for rallying her desperately
outnumbered command to victory in a pivotal battle of the Genpei civil war.