Pause for just a moment in your solemn ceremonies of bagpipes and tendered speeches .
Mixed with medals hung so brightly they reflect in all the breezes of Spring's ever sweet perfumes emanating from the wreaths that are now care-fully scattered across the markers for each name.
Before you blast the graveyard silence with the volleys not yet rendered by your twenty-one salutes + Take just a few more seconds bow uniformed heads together closing your battle scarred eyelids to remember all the Moms.
Moms whose tear-stained
cheeks are flowing now forever on this day seeing only fair-haired children boys who used to play at war now all nestled beneath crosses when those pretend
games came true +++ ++++ +++++ ++++++ Moms who used to
bundle them up snug against the cold and drafts suddenly found themselves helpless when a draft they could not stop froze the hearts of their young sons + + + ++ + + + + + + ++ + + + + + now each 29th of May they're forever more reminded that they've outlived dearest offspring each boy died to give them freedom but their memories are a prison dank and cold, and full of drafts prisons where tears fall when bugles blow out Taps that do not comfort every year when we remember all the lives that wars have stolen
Then go home and kiss "your" mother or leave flowers by her gravestone just a token substitution for all kisses left unplanted on the tear stained cheeks of Mothers from their sons, not home from war
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + remember sacrifices are not always only
bloodstained heroes and the graves of all the fallen but they also do encompass grieving Mothers who sit rocking sobbing with their arms wrapped tightly round their dear boy's last effects.
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