Lest we forget....
Young Sons
A mother takes down a photo
And she holds it to her breast
Just has sheโd done the child it shows
The little boy sheโd washed and dressed.
She remembers how his hair felt
His soft scent still fills her nose.
And one again she curses,
the path her young son chose.
With boyish smile, and happiness
heโd picked the shilling and the gun
she remembered still the fear and dread
when he told her what heโd done.
Yet sheโd smiled and waved him off
as only a loving mother could
If God was good, her smiling son
would return as young sons should.
But then fickle fate, it knows no God
it makes its judgments where it will
and IEDs they donโt discriminate
about who they should maim or kill.
So young sons often come home
fulfilling all their mothers fears
Not with happy smiles and laughter
but, draped in flags and motherโs tears.
Bill Mitton
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"High and low pressure systems cause the day-to-day changes in our weather." ...Metoffice.......
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