Glory?

This poem reflects the involvement and loss of all those who died as a result of war, from our troops, to medical staff, emergency responders, wireless operators and other covert personnel, including the Resistance and others like them.
Anyone who was in a role that put their life on the line. Including the 306.

Cover their heads with glory
Anoint those heads with oil
Remember the souls of those who died
For us
On foreign soil

Remember what they died for
Whose names we’ll never know
They died for a world
Of love and peace
And left us to make it so

Remember those who were injured
Who lived to tell the tale
Who with the threat of world war three
Must be thinking ‘epic fail’

Remember why they suffered
It was to give us peace
To give us a life where love can rule
Where our times were ones of ease

On this day of poppies
Of sadness pomp and love
Remember the brave souls here on earth
And the long dead souls above

Remember why they suffered
And died in mud and rain
And know that their deaths should be enough
Yet still we fight again

We may be too young to remember
We may be too young to know
Far too young to have fought a war
And lucky that this is so

We must hold in our hearts the memory
On each remembrance day
Of the souls who died to make our world
The way it is today

(and hoped for better than we’ve delivered)
Written in 1984
So sad to read now


Deb Hawken
Third poem from 1984