Our Desert Base

From my window the sun shines Down on this desert base of mine I wait for my duty to start Our work away from home is worlds apart Serving Australia in the Middle East This is price for our country’s peace It’s eternal vigilance against the foe Is what we realise and have come to know In my room my sanctity is mine As our Red Cross flies 7 days a week so sublime I know that when our duty is ended Australia will welcome us home as intended. © Paul Warren Poetry For our troops and their families on Remembrance Day.