A poem for Remembrance Day.
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The battle raged on through the night
With little solved by morning light,
Where dead and dying bled on earth,
Rendering men of little worth.
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Then just as darkness welcomed dawn
A man from boyhood not yet gone,
Staggered to the nearby tree
And begged to God to set him free.
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And as he turned his eyes on mine,
A look I could not quite define,
Set him apart from all the rest
As blood flowed freely from his chest.
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He reached out with a shaking hand
Staggering, he could barely stand,
And asked for comfort as he cried,
A deed that could not be denied.
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I guided him in warm embrace
Until we found a safer place,
And laid him down ‘neath rising sun.
We knew his work on Earth was done.
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I knelt beside him on the ground
As in the peace he now had found,
He breathed his last, a dying breath,
All problems set free by his death.
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Christine Ramsay 8.11.10
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