IN YOUR HONOUR

Unselfishly you left your father and mother,

You left behind your sisters and your brothers,

Leaving your beloved wife and children,

You but hold on your dreams – your lives.

On foreign soil, you found yourself planted to fight

For those whose freedom you granted.

Without your sacrifice their cause would be lost,

But you carried onward, no matter the cost.

Many horrors you had endured and seen.

Many faces had haunted your dreams.

You cheered as your enemies littered the ground,

You cried as your brothers fell all around.

When it was over, you all came back home,

Some were left with memories to face all alone,

Some found themselves in the company of friends

As their crosses cast shadows across the land.

Those who survived were forever scared emotionally,

Physically, permanently marked.

Those who did not, now sleep eternally. 

’Neath the ground, they had given their lives to keep free.

SUBMITTED BY:       RAMYA S.

1^ST SEMESTER, B.A.