This Poem was Submitted By: arnie s WACHMAN On Date: 2001-03-20 10:34:00 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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REMEMBERING

Cold...way too cold...much too cold to be here to remember. The crystal flakes of snow fall against an azure sky, reflecting the prism colours I look at memorial and read, "LEST WE FORGET". Silence...hush. The ancient warriors march to the beat, Perhaps a little more slowly now; but there is a spryness in their eyes. The pipers pipe a last lament, and the warriors snap to. A silent heel click in the fallen snow. The flag is lowered. It's precisely 1100 hours. Taps, and The Last Post blare but softly like a wail. The bugler's frozen lips warm to the sound...feeling. Tears in the eyes of the warriors all. How did they feel - these warriors on the battlefields? Were they too cold with their finger frozen to the trigger? I feel humbled as I feel the coldness      and think how it must have been. What do they remember...and what is NOT said      as their hands raise up and impart a salute      to their fallen comrades - our fallen comrades,      and my lips say a silent prayer ... "LEST WE FORGET".

Copyright © March 2001 arnie s WACHMAN


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