I write this last Anzac Day

Anzacs

Our boys not quite yet men
Barely out of school
Some put their ages up
Hoping to join their older siblings
In this their unknown raw fate

The mums And dads left waiting
The hankies soiled forever with tears of love and pride
Of missing their boys even before they'd bade goodbye
and hope of safe return

But The telegrams they came
Came at dead of night
Came at break of days
Came in noon daylight
Came to towns in land afar
United in our stand

The prayers some of which were answered
Some of which too late
Some were left unanswered and no reason for their dire fate

Australians had such courage
Australia had bread our best
These boys who never returned
To those who loved and missed them those brave young men who died so courageously in their
Mateship and fearless in their unknown fate .

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