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Post by mugsy on Nov 10, 2006 12:14:04 GMT 1
Poem written by 13 yyear old Rebecca Sullivan and will be read out at the Rememberence Service tomorrow.
There Lie Forgotten Men They lie there in their thousands The last rays of sunlight Catching the white of the gravestones Lending a poignancy to the moment Numbering in their thousands they lay Deserving remembrance And yet the scarred green fields are empty Nothing remains here The processions of people vanished with the years Their sacrifice all but forgotten
She stands there alone At the edge of the silent place And she is shocked New wars brew and these forgotten men Will play no part in them The dead silence warn no ears but hers In great halls in moments of great decision What they fought for is forsaken And by days end new gravestones Appear on the blood red ground
She finds what she seeks 'Sgt John Malley Age 27' His life brutally ended And she stands by his grave But he can give no answers And she weeps for him For the empty hole he left behind And for the new emptiness Soon to join the black chasm And her tears join the flood
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