<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364218" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Armistice day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rewrote a previous poem of mine......</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brave buildings built in honour of<br>The ones they left behind<br>With thoughts still whole unspoken<br>Of a sentimental kind<br>Of the men who go to war without<br>Any question of deceit<br>The ones that die on battlefields<br>And of serious disease.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For though some wars are over<br>And many battles lost<br>These buildings tower over us<br>So we can count the cost<br>Lest we forget our fallen men<br>So shall we every night<br>Remember those who held their flag<br>And thought their fight was right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a strangeness now about the world<br>That’s making this all seem<br>Like so many leaden soldiers<br>Just a'marching in our dreams<br>But though this now is commonplace<br>And although we hate all war<br>Those human boyhood soldiers<br>Are still dying as before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why do we all go through this<br>Time and time again<br>Why do we fight our politics<br>With the bodies of brave men<br>For there's a truth that lies amongst the dead<br>Both infidel and blessed<br>And they are clearly asking us <br>Why we can't put war to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lest we forget war's horrors<br>And lest we forget the pain<br>Then every single bloody war<br>Will be repeated once again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Keig">David Keig</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=364218" data-title="Armistice day de David Keig" data-description="I rewrote a previous poem of mine...... Brave buildings built in honour of The ones they left behind With thoughts still whole unspoken Of a sentimental kind Of the men who go to war without Any question of deceit The ones that die on battlefield..."></div> </div> </div>

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