Remembrance - Desecration Of War Graves Poem by Paul Warren

When the Japanese came south in the Second World War
There were Land and Sea battles around Indonesia galore
And a lot of brave Allied seamen died in the sea battles
With the HMAS Perth and USS Houston going down in death's rattle

These ships along with Dutch and British ships lie in Indonesian waters
And they are war graves so sacred that they should be left as they oughta
But the Indonesians have decided they the money they can get
From scrap iron is more important to them than remembering it

They say an old warship cut up for scrap metal once salvaged
Can get you a million dollars in a world that can be savaged
We who are left to grow old to want to remember them
Should protest about this desecration until it will end.

© Paul Warren Poetry