742 - Les Invalides

Three Word Wednesday requires participants

to use the three words of the week in a composition.

The words this week were: liberated, muddy and vicious.

100 years since WWI and we have learnt nothing.

Les Invalides

Lest we forget the fallen dead

Who died for what our leaders said

Was a cause both good and grand

Only to die in some muddy land,

So far from home and so misled,

Only to receive a wound instead.

There they fell and slowly bled,

Liberated by a death unplanned—

Lest we forget.

And those who didn’t die by lead,

Died internally, in their head;

Hearing the vicious inner command

To relive the torment of the damned

Until they withered on their bed—

Lest we forget.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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