Fay Slimm.

Nameless

 

 

 

Nameless.

 

Headstones tell stories of breath succumbing

for Nature brings end to the unfit.

 

Setting the table with one place fewer sends

mourners for graveside visits.

 

Comfort is there in the quiet of granite with

names and dates of loved ones missed.

 

But World War 1 saw a coffinless era as boy

soldiers fell to muddy extinction.

 

Young bodies dropped nameless in scores 

so graveyards at home had no link. 

 

Plaques began to appear telling not of lives

lost but of what had been achieved.

 

Yet innocent blood indifferently spilled can

never be seen as victory.

 

Shell blasts and gun fire wrought by elite

terrorized youngsters into killing.

 

Shame on those who never brought back 

a generation of stolen children.