Loving reminder

Dear Editor:

How can  you find a way to really remember this day?

Pinning on a poppy is not difficult enough

For if you really truly set your mind

On the very true bleeding Sacrifice,

That this tiny poppy  of red, represents

Then it should really hurt!

Why?

In Flanders where men fought and fell out in the fields

Where the poppies grew everywhere

And  when the  men fell

They grasped for help ,

And  so in their cold dead hands

Were found the crushed and mangled  dry remains

Of their very last treasure – a poppy

Now can’t you see this lone poppy

As a truly loving reminder

Of that cold and lonely soldier

Of that soldier who died for you?

Sytske Drijber, Rockwood