For Those Who Have Gone On. {Military Poem}

[Zarn Ishtare]

It doesn't take much

a flag waving, a church bell tolling

to make me remember you

I will love you, through all the long years

and burnish bright your memory.

Forgive me. I will try. Try to keep your name

in the mouths of all who knew you

and honor your fame

until my own flame passes.

God, stand in the gap for them

who went ahead, and died in place of me.

Semper Fidelis,

R.I.P.

[Zarn Ishtare]

People do read these things, right?

[ClaecElric4God]

Yes, sir. I just wasn't sure what to say that wouldn't sound dry and shallow in comparison to the meaning of the poem. Respectful silence and all that.