Combat Boots for Remembrance

By Arnold Jansen op de Haar

We remember those who have died in all wars with the last few lines from combat boots:

the reunions
the cloak of brotherhood
the comradely lies
I cast them far from me

we is a word
meant for monarchs
and those who bear their trains

it isn’t war
but the lack of war

is this my darkness
my light
my knowing who the other is
who I

I wore them   yes   combat boots
you didn’t know   you said
what do you know
forget the rhyme and reason
of your suspicious thoughts
think when you see combat boots
of me   of me alone