Poppy Petals

Lonely dripping scarlet tears

Spread their stain across the years

Silent rivulets of blood

Go unnoticed in the mud

Blood stained crosses stand in rows

As the single bugle blows

Poppy petals in the breeze

Hide the unseen agonies

By the rusty barbed wire fence

Water fills the empty trench

Where so much young blood was spilt

And yet the guilty feel no guilt