The land laid waste and desolate. <br />Opposing armies came and went, <br /> that neither thought to contemplate <br />the end result is evident. <br /> <br />There’ll be no harvest here to reap <br />There’s no one left to till the land. <br />Beneath the soil the farmers sleep. <br />The warriors failed to understand <br /> <br />In war there is no victory. <br />The winners and the losers fail <br />to learn from all past history. <br />That warriors die to no avail <br /> <br />The real heroes are men of peace. <br />The farmers and the labourers <br />the men who toil without surcease <br /> to feed themselves and their neighbours. <br /> <br />14-Aug-07<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/unsung-heroes-4/
