The Bugle Boy

The Bugle Boy

Who will remember the bugle boy?
Who knows the place where he fell?
Where he lay alone on the cold wet ground
while death played its dreadful knell.

Who would know of his final thoughts?
Who was there at his final breath?
Who will have held the young boy’s hand
as he faced his lonely death?

His bones still lie on a foreign field
far from the stone that lists those lost.
Who reads the names of those gallant men?
Who was left counting the cost?

The blood still stains the silent soil
that covered the young boy’s face
and a bugle plays through the winds of time
where poppies now mark the place.

Who will remember the bugle boy;
who lived and died too soon?
Who grieved the loss of the bugle boy?
Who played his final tune?

About the author

paxna19
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I'm a retired cartographer. I have written poetry since the age of about 10yrs old. I started to write more prolifically when I started my divorce some years ago. Writing got me through. I have also written a couple of children's books with illustrations as I also paint in watercolours, I paint pets and birds/animals portraits in hot melted wax. I am very excited to hear that I have a book of my poems being published by i2i publishing which I am told, should be ready in January on line from all book shops. It is called On Top Of The Wardrobe.

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