I Weep For You Another’s Son |
I weep for you another’s son
Who fought with death under a hot dessert sun
and lost the battle that an IED finally won
I weep for you another’s son
For the troubles that your young eyes have daily seen
For the difficult situations in which you have been
I weep for you another’s son
Who returns in a coffin his duty now finally done
For we will never now know all that you would have become
I weep for you another’s son
As I share with your family both their sorrow and tears
As I try to imagine what may be their greatest fears
of how will they live without your in future years
I weep for you another’s son
As we bury you with honours your dues to the Crown now fully paid
As in the hands of your family a Queen Elizabeth medal is laid
And alongside your simple gravestone our tender tributes are said
I weep for you another’s son
For I too have a boy that was of your years
Who I will now treasure throughout the years
And pray that for him I will not shed these same tears |
Lorraine England |
Poem Background info: Written 14 July 09 following the return of those soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan and returned by Hercules to RAF Lyneham
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