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Unsung Heroes

The land laid waste and desolate.
Opposing armies came and went,
that neither thought to contemplate
the end result is evident.

There’ll be no harvest here to reap
There’s no one left to till the land.
Beneath the soil the farmers sleep.
The warriors failed to understand

In war there is no victory.
The winners and the losers fail
to learn from all past history.
That warriors die to no avail

The real heroes are men of peace.
The farmers and the labourers
the men who toil without surcease
to feed themselves and their neighbours.

14-Aug-07

poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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