the war never forgotten

The War never forgotten

It has been on my mind all day, eighteen years old
soldier died in Afghanistan, I know he loved going
there and they had giving him the spiel about making
the world safe and at his age you do not understand
death. Shouldn’t those responsible sent him to a safer
place or the British army so stretched that they have
to send boy soldiers to the front? Of course he was
working class they are the ones who do all the dying
and it is only when the sons of the upper classes die.
and poets write about it, that monuments are erected.
So many wars, so much suffering so many deaths of
the common man, the Afghan war will be forgotten
too those who died were not famous, and more books
will be written about the First World War when sons
of the aristocracy also died.