A poem for Remembrance Day...

Poppies Blood Red

 

Poppies blood red

With a centre of black

A reminder of war

You’re not coming back

The battles you fought

Were private, your own

And in the last conflict

You perished alone

No sleep for those living

I could not follow

First night filled with tears

Deep dark well of sorrow

Time passes, time heals

But scars will remain

My core’s been torn out

Life cannot be the same

Each November is marked

We remember the dead

A centre of black

And poppies blood red