War - Ww1 - Does A Nation Need A Blood Sacrifice Poem by Paul Warren

Does a nation need a blood sacrifice
To be made a nation in our suffice
The talk is always that The Landing
On that April 25th day made our standing

But did it take these young Australians
Dying on a foreign fatal shore as alien
To make us to the world a nation
When that Turkish invasion was made in elation

And the battle of the beach did not happen
For it was a battle of the heights to comprehend
We remember the 9000 dead Men
With 27,000 wounded in the end

I think it is part of our nation's history
Australia was made in its pioneering spirit story.

© Paul Warren Poetry