Remembrance

Let's walk among the ashes

And muddy remains of battles fought

And wars lost.

I know you see them

I know you hear their cries.

These phantom soldiers

Being bombed and shot

And left to die.

Hear their cries of pain and anguish

Let it rip your soul.

Listen as one cries a woman's name

Fated to never see her again.

See him bravely marching on

Towards the other side.

See his chest erupt in flesh and bone

Another lonely boy so far from home.

Smell the chemicals in the air

From guns and various warfare.

Smell the rotting flesh of the dying

Corpses without a grave to call their own.

I know you don't want to see, nobody does,

But do you now see how these boys,

These heroes,

Suffered for our freedom?

The earth carries these lonely ghosts

Forever locked in eternal battle.

Their shades alive and

Still fighting amidst the fields of poppies.