Farewell 2009- welcome 2010?
SUN, rain, toe-numbing snowDays, months, years ebb and flowAgain, again they line the cortege route.
Sun, rain, toe-numbing snow
Days, months, years ebb and flow
Again, again they line the cortege route.
Silence, honour, lowers, heart-felt tears
Flag-draped coffins slowly passing by-
Husband, father, brother, lover and friend
Dead within their prime, before their time
Dead with youthful hope and expectation incomplete.
Brave, steadfast, loyal comrades served-
Their teenage dream, their selfless aspiration
Far beyond a nation's call to arms.
Heat, sand, a barren no-man's land
Inch by inch before the point of no return
They edged a fractious, disconnected world away
From self-annihilation.
Mary Hale