I am the fallen.
Fallen, I became the earth
below this Flanders Field
where once battled raged
now a blaze
of wondrous poppies grow.
I am the fallen.
Two minutes is all I ask of
you,
two minutes to remember
me.
Stay silent then,
rid your mind of cluttered
thoughts,
turn off your phone,
stay silent then,
remember me.
I am the fallen,
please remember me.
Anna
War and strife continue to
rage across this world of ours and soldiers and civilians continue to fall day
after day after day.
Lest we forget - many of us
do, many of us have. We seem unable to
learn…
Shared with the good folk at Poets United.
Image: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
16 comments:
Turn off your phone...that struck me truly. Consumed by the endless barrage of voices that reach us though phones we are unable to turn off, we might have stopped hearing our own.
Beautifully poignant write ❤️
So very true. We do owe that two minutes of silence to our vets....those who have given THEIR lives for us, or were WILLING to anyway by serving.
(Thanks for your detailed comment on my site. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to make it.)
Such a reason to ponder past and those that were led to be slaughtered... and especially these days when we are standing on the edge to disaster
I took a pause at 11:11 on 11/11/2016. I wish I had had your words in front of me--though in a way I did and find them captured faithfully here. Thank you. And thank you for your comment on my poem.
Nicely Written. ... ironically, I read it on my phone
War is the worst idea humankind ever had. A beautiful poem.
Amen.
ZQ
The fallen are not forgotten but what a sacrifice, and at what cost,unnecessary in many instances!
Hank
What a wonderful poem for Remembrance day.
Remember them we must. We forget them at our peril.
Yes, we remember them.
I do think an awful lot of people do not take Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday seriously, if at all. So sad to think of people who gave their Today for our Tomorrow and it is often not appreciated, as it should be.
Hi Anna, such a meaningful thought evoking poem of which I found most pleasure in reading although touching the heart in remembrance of others. And Kind regards to you too.
Let us never forget the lessons ours gave their lives for ...bkm
i am sorry i forgot to observe a minute's silence on Armistice Day. too caught up in the day's mundane affairs of emails and phone calls. yes, i should have made an effort to switch off that phone that day. :(
But many lives still continued to be lost after that Great War. with another great war, civil wars, korea, nam, afghanistan, iraq...
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