Remembering

Fragile tissues wet with tears
Remembering loved ones we have known
Petals falling to the ground
Back to earth from seeds once sown

Fragile earth wet with blood
Shed by loved ones been and gone
Never forgotten year on year
From each daybreak to setting sun

Fragile feelings hurt and pain
Father, brother, son and friend
Went to war in hope one day
That battling would somehow end

Poppies growing in foreign soil
Reminds us of all those soldiers brave
Who went to war but came not back
But lay forever in some distant grave

©Marian Barker

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