Ceremony to the Dead

“We are the chosen.

The infected,

battling our demons night and day.

Protecting the uninformed from reality.

We fight where the stupid meet the clueless to perform the asinine for our teammates every day.

We are cops, military, special forces, and SWAT,

medical techs, priests, and clergy.

We are the dimensional derelicts,

the legion, the host, the forgotten.

The feared.

The sheep can sleep at night because we don’t.

We fight for humanity—yours—and for our own.

We are the Damned, and death is our enemy,

our escape,

and our tribute.”