Remember

A poem

© Emily Charlotte Powell

I do not know your name
I do not know your face
I do not know what day you died
Nor where your end took place

I think that you were scared
I hope you weren’t alone
I guess you had a family
And wanted to go home

I know you had no choice
I know that you were brave
I know that you were far too young
To lay down in your grave

I honour you today
I hold you in my mind
I think of all you sacrificed
For those you left behind

I thank you for my life
Though strangers we may be
I promise to remember
Just what you did for me

Words by Lydia Saward, pictures by Emily Charlotte Powell

If you enjoyed our poem, you might also like our Children’s Christmas Picture Book, Is Aunt Moll from the North Pole, available from Tree Keeper Books or Waterstones

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