This Side of the Wall - Empty
So many names
Countless deaths inscribed on a marble façade
Each one remembered.
For these we weep!
What of this side of the wall – Empty?
Why do we not weep for it?
It remains here waiting
Patiently, for its turn
Knowing that it too will one day be filled
With names from other wars
Not yet fought.
Why not weep,
Knowing there are so many more to die?
Countless deaths inscribed on a marble façade
Each one remembered.
For these we weep!
What of this side of the wall – Empty?
Why do we not weep for it?
It remains here waiting
Patiently, for its turn
Knowing that it too will one day be filled
With names from other wars
Not yet fought.
Why not weep,
Knowing there are so many more to die?