Because We Should Never Forget

To those who gave their all,

Or took the risk, 

To those who still do,

So we can go to work

And home

To church,

To school,

With shoes.

So we can travel 

Or marvel

As we watch the day unravel

In a garden,

On a hilltop,

Or from picnics in the park

So we can sit with kin a bit

Beneath the star-frothed dark

Or stroll through

Supermarkets

With shopping baskets

So we can cook,

Bake,

And linger

With loved ones

After dinner

Over tea and cake

So we can stop

At Hospitals,

Greenhouses,

The mechanic,

Coffee-shops,

Or grandma’s house

Without

So much

As a second thought

Thank-you

© Janet Martin