On Anzac Day

At the town's war memorial in the dawning gray After the war memorial ceremony a lone bugler The Last Post play For soldiers who died a century ago in a war far away Memories of the war supposed to end all wars remembered on Anzac Day But what have we learned from wars of the past little it does seem true to say When children on their computers are playing war games today I too played war games with toy guns with my school friends as a boy And talking of and celebrating war heroes many adults seem to enjoy Of the praises of war heroes the patriots may sing But no such a thing as a just war as war is an awful thing Every day in war zones the numbers of civilians only seem to grow and grow Some of them live with horrific injuries and others die painful and slow The war supposed to end all wars was fought one hundred years ago And the sworn enemy back then nowadays is not the foe And at the war memorial on Anzac dawn the onlookers in silence stand In respect as a lone bugler plays The Last Post for men who died in a far off Land.