Lest we forget

Lest we forget

Soldiers who gave up their lives

Be it World War one or second

Or be they the unknown boy soldiers

Who once said in Kohima,

‘When you go home

 Tell them of us and say

For their tomorrow

We gave our today’

Who ever they be fighting

Or having fought in wars

Skirmishes too

By man wrought

Be it Pakistan, India, China

Or

Bangla Desh, be it now Afghanistan

For that matter the

United States and

Canadians have lost so many

Can we dare not salute them?

Today is the war Veterans Day

Eleven hours,

Eleventh day

Eleventh month

Some ninety-one years

Gone past life’s weary ways

In 1918

The First World War did end

Those soldiers we remember

Who then had brushed life away?

Let us all stand up

In absolute silence and pray

For two minutes

For those souls

Who then had passed away

At the Tomb

Of the unknown soldier today

We all unitedly stand to pray.