Family Of War

• Jacob Menzies, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2015

Water runs swiftly on this land
But long before man killed man
The battle that was for told
And the story's that never grow old
My father's father's blood ran free
As his spirit let him be

My mothers brother died at war
Yet his gravestone is standing tall
My cousin, Tim, has had his time
He died whilst listening to a M9's chime

Yet all these stories are key
To what now makes our family see
Now here I stand, next in line
How much longer before its my time