IF

If we could build a marble wall,

for all the soldiers lost,

In all the wars that men have fought,

at great and terrible cost,

It would probably reach around the Earth,

A dozen times or more,

For millions of soldiers over time,

Have lost their lives in war.

If every generation

built monuments to their dead,

Then it’s likely that the Earth will flood,

From the endless tears we shed

That mixes with the wasted blood,

That all those warriors bled.

© 18 February 05 Colin F Jones

10 March 2005