Briefly Mentioned in Dispatches

In the field,
they treated him like some kind
of young god,
because to them, he most surely
was a god ..
And though there were so many
things that
needed his immediate attention ..
In effect, those to
be mended or fixed and somehow,
made good enough
to remain and to fight in the field
yet again and again ..
At which point, take note, it was
while in the thick
of it all, he was forced to leave so
many, where they
had either fallen, or lay broken ..
And not through
any personal fatigue or the jitters,
we hasten to add
but some administrative errors ..
And by George,
by then, he had already run out
of those dreadfully
inadequate, fresh dressing packs ..
Those issued earlier
that same day and only a matter
of moments
before the young god himself had
fully bled out ..
He had been the son of a carpenter
no less, yet was
crucified in some bloody foreign field ..
And though only
briefly mentioned, in dispatches shall
never be forgot ..