The Real Reason For Remembrance Day Parades? Poem by Terence George Craddock

differences between sad
remembrance ceremonies
honouring youthful dead

and government
romance parades
glorifying wars

justifying new wars;

remembrance of sad
tragic youth soldiers lost
serves as a warning

do not false enter lightly
into conflict zones swift
foolish run off to fight wars

saber rattling foolish leaders
politicians too soon condemn
new generations of healthy steadfast

youth into hellstorm baptism of fire;

abstain from war let
children bury parents
in natural cycle of life

let not old crippled parents
bury their babies as young men
as slain blown apart dead.


Copyright © Terence George Craddock