Remembrance Day Poem-We Remember.

Young men eager to start an adventure

As they face their greatest fear

To leave kith and kin without censure

To fight the greatest foe

Off to the front, the war they go

The young and the older leave their families,

Going to foreign lands, they take their leaves,

Women volunteered and were put behind the scenes

To bandage the weary troops and keep the papers forwarded

With the orders down the line, and to keep the troops boarded

They stepped up those valiant women with none rewarded

The men the battle waged, battling falling in foreign land

Some in lonely countryside, some in Dieppe’s watery sand

Their youth, the strength given for their country

So we can have freedom to live and breathe and see

A world of peace and feel that we are free

To speak our minds and raise our families

They gave their lives their body and mind

To save our country, to give us time to find

Our place in the world without oppression

To save us from someone else obsession

Who wanted to control the world and control thought

So our troops volunteered and so valiantly fought

Giving to us their country the peace we sought

We thank them for their sacrifice                             

Though it barely does suffice

We thank them for the time they gave

We thank them for the lives they save

We thank them truly, for the battles fought

The battles won, for the peace we sought

We remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Though our thanks barely suffice

And those that come home broken

We give to all of you this token

Of our love and remembrance

For every day that is hence

We will remember and celebrate your life

We remember how you had such strife

To give us freedom and peace

To let the hostilities cease.

Thank-you is all I can say

Thank you each and every day.

We shall not forget.

Though the sunset

We shall always remember

Each and every day

And not only in November

Of the role you played

And the sacrifices you made

Our memories will never fade.

©Sheilagh Lee  November 6 ,2011