War And Remembrance - Ww1 - 60,000 Dead Poem by Paul Warren

60,000 young Australians dead in the Great War
In Europe, the Middle East and Gallipoli's Fatal shore
Lying dead on foreign battlefields sometimes for 100 years
As those who are left behind at home are in an ocean of tears

60,000 who loved and were loved as through the war they roamed
The names etched on Memorials across the seas and at their homes
In French and Flanders Fields with the other Great Allied Armies
To the last man and the last shilling at the beginning in all it's glories

The fog of the years now settles over us and it is harder to understand it all
Why so many Australian men went to this War at our Nation's call
If asked there would be a miriad of reasons why they went to War
I'm sure the 60,000 dead will stand as a guiding light in the future even more.

© Paul Warren Poetry