War And Remembrance - Ww2 - Franklin D Roosevelt, Wartime American President Poem by Paul Warren

Franklin D Roosevelt was the greatest American President
Who contracted polio and spent life as a wheelchair resident
There were two positions in which he was filmed in his time
In a car moving about with people thinking he was fine
Or standing up with his leg braces locked in standing up
Holding the arm of an aid whilst to other leaders he measured up
He was a man of drive who gave a war weary world such hope
That we could defeat the axis of evil to give dictators the rope

When you see the other Allied leaders meeting during the war
It is hard to think he is the youngest leader easily holding them all in awe
The story I most like of this great man showing such compassion there
Was breaking his solid rule of not being seen in public in his wheelchair
Whilst visiting wounded servicemen on Saipan during the difficult Pacific War
And showing what you could accomplish as a paraplegic with drive and more
But what was saddest in the story of this great American Wartime President
Was that on the eve of defeating the Axis countries he died in history's lament.

© Paul Warren Poetry