FRAGILE FREEDOMS

lost in France
resting in
  peace 'neath
 a simple cross
just name nationality
 &rank
giving of life
    was his loss.

in memory face
      fading go
as echoing years
        slip by
still a mother's
      tears flow;

Harriet H
  high cheeked
pretty&petite

of twinkling
eyes&
      dressed so neat

her son
    unforgotten

 yet        forfeit

        but for what?

T'was ever thus
      a peasant
        soldier's lot