Friday, April 24, 2009

for the fallen


i am sitting in the lull of the house after dinner


and girls scootering around tied together with a skipping rope


and husband chatting to his mother


and poodle barking at and chasing the cat


and rain on the roof


and the soft hum of this amazing equipment


and i want to thank the amazing humans who went to war,


those who fell


those who returned


those who lost love


those who kept going


i never want to have to know what they did


see what they did


feel what they did


but i know i have this quiet house, in this beautiful country in no small part because of them - their youthful, ignorant, passionate, horrible sacrifice


and as clumsily as i am expressing it


i have gratitude and plan to go to the dawn parade tomorrow to honour them

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