Purpose of Wars

To start with, on the battlefield,
you fight for your country.
It is a thrill to advance.
The euphoria of speed,
further and further and further.

Later, when doubt sets in,
you fight for your comrades,
whom you can't leave in the lurch.

But then when even they are fallen
And you're alone
you realise that now
you cannot deceive yourself.

Then you understand
the purpose and the real victor
of the wars are flies and worms.
We fight to fatten them.