The Unkown Soldier

• Mia-marie Vajngerl, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2018

A skull is always smiling,
The question is, why?
Why do they smile?
When they know they are dead.
Why do they smile?
When their loved ones have cried over them.
I don't know why most of them smile,
But I know why he smiles.
He smiles because he did something.
He stopped a war for the ones that had died.
Friends and family.
Foes and allies.
Victims and soldiers.
A skull is always smiling.
The question is, why?