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Silent Soldiers by Becky Gerrans
from Legacy 1999
Silent Soldiers
by Becky Gerrans
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Row by row
file by file
I passed down the ranks of
the soldiers
straight ahead they looked
never moving a muscle
faces hard as marble
unyielding as stone
each had done his duty
they now were going home
stiffly at attention
each with a flag
a color guard of silent
soldiers
I blinked for only a moment
they were dead on their feet
a cemetery of men
faithful to the end
but the end came too soon
new their caskets
row by row
file by file
I pass down the ranks of the soldiers
their eyes forever closed
their faces forever still
hard as marble
unyielding as stone
my silent soldiers
