Cowardice

• Nicholas Brown, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2017

There lies a land beyond the sand and waves and froth and boats

Where young men stand, with guns in hand, in trenches, wearing coats.

Sons and fathers, brothers and boys, soon all to breathe their last

Lest you head off and join them, their doom approaches fast.

With wings of white feathers, above brackens and heathers,

Be off, be off with haste

For God if he saw
The cause you'd fight for
In heaven would grant you a place.