Somber skies towering before us, closing in at breakneck speed Distant flashes testifies, to the gravity of the situation Infernal rain from below sets the sky ablaze above me Life passes before my eyes, airborne into war These faces do not lie, survival is far from guaranteed Facing the whirling aerial abyss, we prepare for annihilation Attached to static lines, one by one we submerge The pillars of searchlights scavenge for victims in the sky The obscurity of the setting, clouds my sense and judgement I twitch and cringe, praying not to get hit But all I can see, death smiling at me Infernal rain from below sets the sky ablaze above me Life passes before my eyes, airborne into war Expendable cannon fodder, a stooge in death's grand prix Answering to the appalling bark of a thousand eighty-eight's