Monday 5 November 2012

Remembrance


5th November 2012

Remembrance

In hundreds, thousands and millions they died,
and some unknown in the lonely loss
of a blast-dissected body,
all alone, unrecognizable,
or drowning in the toxins of gas,
or the ice-grip of a monstrous sea,
but all remembered.

Some were burnt and fell to earth but rose up high.
Some, tortured and warped, dying by inches for us
(or our enemies).

Some live to forgive and some can not,
and there are minds and hearts so gripped by trauma
that they do not know where to go.

And the families, the families! I cannot comprehend their injuries.

But I will remember them all, and pray for
the hurt and the harmed
and the heroes and the cowards
and all the dismembered of the wars,

And still remember that I was made because of war.


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