In Gallipoli Today

Where the enemy no longer is the foe In a place where the gunfire was loud a century ago Silence reign supreme in Gallipoli today Where the long dead of war at peace forever lay Where their brief lives journey came to a violent end For war is brutal why otherwise pretend Even for the so called winners the cost of war is great Since only death and suffering and grief it does create And what did they die for ask one other than me For any point in war i for one fail to see And though their praises for their bravery by the patriots sung It is a fallacy that only the good die young In April every year people from far away Come to honor their fallen Countrymen where they lay But too few of them ask for what did they die The brave misled who believed in a lie That they died in the war that was supposed to end all wars did not turn out to be true Far better lives and deaths ought to have been their due In conflict zones only suffering, death and tears and pain And any reason for war beyond me to explain The present foe can be your future friend it does seem And in Gallipoli today peace reign supreme Their long journey from their Homeland to the shores of Turkey was their last Though the lessons not learned from wars of the past.