The Fallen Soldier

Consider, my friend, the one who has fallen.
For life and its freedoms to him once were calling.
Now silent he sleeps, his destiny sealed.
He laid down his life on life's battlefield.

In youth something called him to go and to serve.
His place he embraced with his zeal and his nerve.
Whatever the reason, whatever his claim,
the flag that he died for bears our country's name.

While you have the privilege to go and to do,
to kiss your dear parents, tie your firstborn's first shoe,
remember the fallen, the one who lies silent.
Remember his losses, get quiet for a moment.

Remember his father, his sisters, his brothers.
Remember his comrades and all of their mothers.
It's a wrong in this country should the day ever dawn
when a soldier who's fallen lies sleeping alone.

Stop from your doing, your shopping, your baking.
Stop from your busy life, the plans that you're making,
and whisper a prayer to the One on the Throne,
for soldiers yet living or whose fighting is done.

Pray for their outcome, their cause and their lives.
Ask mercy from Him who our very life gives.
Remember the brave young soldier, now sleeping.
When he fell, forever still, it was us he was keeping.

Lynn Wilson

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