Let Us Go On Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Let us go on.
The road is long and we,
Have been long trudging, trudging.
In the trenches we knew war and warfare
We saw blood mix with dust and clay.

But let us go on.
The trenches have been dug, and long
We can trudge more – hoping,
Hoping.

If we trudge longer we will better do.
The world needs our industry, not our laziness.
So let us trudge though
Falter we here and there in to
The bogs and quagmires.

We will not fear more now that we lose what?
Though existence be everywhere all time:
.
For at this juncture what is there to lose?
Our cowardice perhaps?
We have sung and chanted, verse has been.
We have seen blood shed and we have seen guns
We have heard the rattling of machine guns
The bombs whistling through the air
And missiles whizzing in the leaden skies.
So what lose we?