War And Remembrance - Missing Aborigine Diggers Poem by Paul Warren

At the end of the Great War
Families were torn apart
With 60,000 dead
There was not a family
On the Australian continent
Who did not have at least
One of their sons and daughters
Husbands, wives, relatives or friends
Who were victims of this conflict
Giving their lives for their country and mates

So every Australian town or suburb
Erected a memorial to their glorious dead
But there was most times some names
That were missing from these sacred places
Usually, aboriginal digger's names were not included
This included men who were decorated for their bravery
It makes me wonder how they could leave out
These man whose blood was split
Sometimes in acts of saving their fellow men
On those broken foreign battlefields.

© Paul Warren Poetry