He came home from war in a casket the war now supposed to be won <br />He was buried with full military honours but the mother now grieves for her son <br />But now he is just one of the war dead and all is so quiet where he lay <br />In the family grave by the hillside he can't hear the birds welcome the day. <br /> <br />On his last birthday he turned twenty his best years of him were ahead <br />He was buried with full military honours but honours can't bring joy to the dead <br />His mother is left to grieve for him she visits his grave every day <br />Not surprising she feels bitter and angry that her son should die in such a way. <br /> <br />She advised him not to join the army that it was not a good career choice <br />But he was one who loved adventure and he did not heed her advice <br />That her son died bravely in a war zone and his name is on the war memorial wall <br />To her is of little value and of no consolation at all. <br /> <br />Her son was a very brave young man and his character never in doubt <br />And she had worked hard to raise him on her own when his father on them had walked out <br />She did not raise him to be a war hero to die on a foreign roadside <br />As one of ten victims of a young suicide bomber who for to kill him committed suicide. <br /> <br />Her son's death still fresh in her memory he died only nine months ago <br />And each time she visits his grave site her tears for her loved one does flow <br />A woman in her mid to late forties with some gray in her shoulder length brown hair <br />Left to grieve for the only child she had life can be so very unfair.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mother-now-grieves-for-her-son/
