LEST WE FORGET
On a cold November
Sunday morn, an old man sits a while
Looking through old photographs, he can’t help but smile
They’re all there, all the boys, with hair cut short and neat
Uniforms of khaki, strong black boots upon their feet
They met as strangers
but soon became like brothers to the end
Smiling at the camera, there could be no truer friends
They all took the Queen’s shilling, went off to fight in the sun
Soon learnt the pain of loss once the fighting had begun
So many never made
it home, lost on foreign shores
Many more were injured and would be the same no more
The old man’s eyes mist with tears as he remembers every face
Each of his fallen brothers and the killing which took place
He proudly dons his
beret, his blazer and his tie
For today he will remember the ones who fell and died
On his chest there is a poppy, a blaze of scarlet on the blue
He steps out into the cold, he has a duty he must do
Once at the cenotaph,
he stand amongst the ranks
Of those who marched to war and those who manned the tanks
He bows his head in reverence, as the last post begins to play
And he wonders what will happen at the ending of his days
Will anyone remember?
Will anybody care?
About the lads so far from home whose life was ended there?
I wish that I could tell him, that he should fear not
For this soldier and his brothers will NEVER be forgot
We owe a debt of gratitude that we can never pay
And this country WILL remember them, on each Remembrance Day