AN ORDERED PEACE

 

An ordered peace

Now hold sway

Where once was chaos

And hell came to earth

Nature has returned

To repaint the landscape

The mud and the blood

Are of the past

The alien terrain

Featureless and without end

Are but a distant memory

The mud now green grass

And poppies grow

Red as the blood that fed them 

In the savage harvest

The landscape now is neat

The birds have returned

And grace the trees unknowing 

The farmers work the land

Where once the soldiers trod

National flags still flutter

Above ordered plots

For silent armies

All neat and tidy

Uniform patches

Of uniformed crosses

Serried ranks

Of white polished stone

Where lads and pals parade

With eternal regiments