Guns still Cocked

                                                                       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

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