Only the brave one can smile though not winning only the brave are gracious in defeat <br />Only the brave one though seen as successful never does show any sign of conceit <br />If for some reason from the Queen you do not accept a knighthood that does not prove lack of grace on your part <br />That only proves that you are a good person that you are one who does follow your heart <br />You've proved yourself in the heat of the battle and you became a hero when the war was won <br />It has been said that your victims were many but everyone you killed was some mother's son <br />Many see you as a brave ageing hero a hero once and a hero today <br />But I am not one who agrees with the many I look at life in a different way <br />On what is brave I do have my opinions but that doesn't mean my opinions are right <br />I've never discharged a gun at another for God or Country I never would fight <br />Maybe I do seem off in my opinions but that's your opinion and that suits me fine <br />You belong to what's known as majority thinking but are your opinions much better than mine <br />Only the brave one will speak for the oppressed one that's my opinion though I'm far from brave <br />But fear is a thing that helps me to keep living I fear the coldness of the earthy grave. <br /> <br /> <br />--------------------<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/only-the-brave-one/
