A poem written by a new Resident - Greg Howard

Remembrance Day

 

Remembrance Day is when you bring we fallen to your mind;

Protecting those who live back home, those ones we've left behind.

We volunteered our time, ourselves, to fight to quell the foe;

Not knowing what we'd face today, next day we might not know. 

 

I've seen the horrors of the war, the bodies left behind,

A little child without an arm, a mother being kind.

How many lives were given when we fought to keep us free,

From ones who planned to take our land, our freedom, life from me.

 

We went to face those ones who felt they needed what we had

And were prepared to take it if, it meant they must be bad.

And kill each one, stood in their way or differed from their thought;

While helping out a fallen friend, I too was sadly shot.

 

My family I have left behind, they'll miss my laugh and smile,

As many of my close friends too, didn't make that one last mile.

For now we lie in Flanders Fields, we're buried row on row,

Beneath the lovely poppies here, that do above us grow.

 

by Greg Howard 25 Oct 2020