Traffic Diverted
Onlookers
behind
Metal Barriers
Push and Shove
Wanting
Best View ..
A Yearly Event
Doing what We British Do best
"Putting on a Jolly Good Show"..
Military Bands
Toe Tapping Tunes
Women and Men Marching
Some with Sticks
Some with Crutches
Some in Wheel Chairs
Back with Their Pals..
Blazers Coats adorned with Multi Coloured Honours
Expressing on this One Day
What is so often
"An Unspoken"
All Gather at the Cenotaph
Along
with
The King
The Queen
The Prime Minister
State Dignitaries...
Honouring
"The Glorious Dead"..
Only the fluttering of Birds Wings
overhead
Intrude
upon
The Two Minutes
of
Silence
A Lone Bugler
plays
The Last Post
Its sound Echoes from Building to Building
like
A Call from an Alpine Herdsman..
Alas though this Flock
Will never be Coming Home
Wreaths of Poppies are Laid
Reveille Resounds
Alas
These Boys and Girls will not Awaken.....
A Yearly Event
Military Bands
Toe Tapping Tunes
Women and Men Marching
Some with Sticks
Some with Crutches
Some in Wheel Chairs
Back with Their Pals..
The Spaces
ever
Increasing
Guns
still
Cocked
"Gathered at the Cenotaph
They All agree
with
Hands on Heart
to
Sheath
The Sacrificial Knifes" .....
[ Pink Floyd
Southampton Dock]
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