War And Peace - Ww1 - No Glory In How He Returned Poem by Paul Warren

She waits for him in the fading light
For he had gone off to the war in his country's fight
Australia was just a young nation then
And we had something to prove at our end

He was a Light horseman who rode away
And promised that he would return one day
So he had returned after the Beersheba fight
When Grant's men charged in the late afternoon light

But there was no glory in how he returned to her
On a ship with a bullet in the back to walk no more
She struggled on nursing him at home as the love disappeared
And their life struggled on in all those years whilst the tears appeared.

© Paul Warren Poetry