Written, November 11, 2021
Poetry/Free Verse/Remembrance Day In Canada Copyright Protected, ID 11-1606-322-21 All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
"We are the dead. Short days ago We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved ...." By _ Lt. Col. John McCrae (In Flanders Field) 1915 ________________ Let me tell you a story . . . Imagine a little boy playing in the sandbox and driving his sister crazy most of the time he ran and ran everywhere and he had a dream to be a soldier a Canadian Peace Keeper, like many the family were proud but frightened also fathers, would say, he is a peacekeeper so he will be okay anyone who tells you peacekeepers do not die is lying because they do, they do ... this boy came home in a box like so many he fought in a battle far, far from home I visit those graves often passing the rows and rows of white stone military markers my great grandpa fought in WWI I have a photograph of him in uniform my grandpa fought in WW2 he never spoke of what he saw grandma said he came back a changed man I think a lot about all the men and women who go to war who have given their lives for peace wish I could go to Flanders Field Cemetery and see the 12,000 crosses row after row oh, is war to be part of this world forever for, it seems there is always a war somewhere I read somewhere that the poppies are dying in Flanders Field
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