Soldiers

Soldiers are poets
Whose poems don't find words..

They act
For those of us
Who have only words

And we forget them
Because they didn't leave
Any poems behind
To remember them by..

But the soil
Where their sweat fell
The rocks
Where their blood spilled
Break into spring
Every single time
When in their country
A child smiles
A song is sung
People leave home to go to work
Without worry
And sleep comes to all
Without fear.