The Forgotten Warriors

 

It’s not just those who die who pay the price,
though who can say it hasn’t cost them dear?
They’re gone, all for the casting of the dice,
but many others suffer year by year.

 

Those left behind may never know the cause,
may never even know the place they fell.
They’ll wonder evermore the case for wars;
 and why their man was forced to face such hell.

 

Who knows how long the suffering they’ll endure,
be it day by day and ev’ry single night.
Steadfast in hope – but never ever sure –
that in their death they will at last unite.