Happy Decoration Day!

     To the Warmongers 

Written by my hero, Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon:

"I'm back again from hell 

With loathsome thoughts to sell; 

secrets of death to tell;

And horrors from the abyss.

Young faces bleared with blood 

sucked down into the mud, 

You shall hear things like this, 

Till the tormented slain

Crawl round and once again,

With limbs that twist awry

Moan out their brutish pain,

As the fighters pass them by.

For you our battles shine

With triumph half-divine;

And the glory of the dead

Kindles in each proud eye.

But a curse is on my head, 

That shall not be unsaid, 

And the wounds in my heart are red, 

For I have watched them die."