We fight willingly for our country <br />For the liberty and welfare of loved ones <br />Protecting the defenceless <br />Our life is the token we place in arenas of death <br />Placed there without thought of the consequences <br />Freely unerringly given <br />Giving for what we believe in <br />Sometimes crippled, mostly dying <br />Through the ages against tyranny <br />Fighting with inimitable valour <br />Willing to defend to death <br />For the right to respect and be respected <br />Armies and governments will come and go <br />Soldiers will live on forever <br />Even those under those grassy sods <br />Marked by the crosses sign <br />Placed there in grief <br />Weep not for the man beneath the mound <br />Humanity needs the tears more<br /><br />Gordon D Wilkinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-soldiers-bequest/
