Lamentations

 I found him in the guard-room at the Base.
 
From the blind darkness I had heard his crying 
And blundered in.
 With puzzled, patient face 
A sergeant watched him; it was no good trying 
To stop it; for he howled and beat his chest.

And, all because his brother had gone west, 
Raved at the bleeding war; his rampant grief 
Moaned, shouted, sobbed, and choked, while he was kneeling 
Half-naked on the floor.
 In my belief 
Such men have lost all patriotic feeling.

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