WE WILL REMEMBER

For all our tomorrows

They gave their today

Grandfather's to father's

Father's and their sons

The battlefield whistle blows

One lets out a deathly cry

Why should I live, yet he dies

For their loss is our reply.

Here now we're standing together

Side by side, shoulder to shoulder

The soldier, veteran and the stranger

Never to forget, always to remember

Poppy fields teach us to pause

Look from their fields to the skies

A Falling leaf like a widow's tear

Speaks a solemn whisper of thanks

At the cenotaph, names we knew

The role-call of names unfamiliar

Yet with one voice together we say,

'We will remember them.'

©Sarah Joy Holden