Wigan Album

How very sad.... god bless

Who to blame.
By,Tom Walsh .

A snipers bullet,a road side bomb,
a traitors kiss,a friends remiss.
What and who, matter little now a soldiers dead.
A mother weeps over a cold and empty bed.
A father ponders times of yore,of holidays,of football games.and those silly,silly childish names .
Those days can never be again,but who to blame ?
Not the politician,that's not his game,nor the minister,O! the shame!
Not the Field Marshal,in braided splendour,
nor the Sergeant Major with voice like thunder.
Not the soldier in coffin dark awaiting his last long journey home.
To a family that will forever mourn.
Lessons will be learnt we are told,fighting and war will be no more I,think we have heard all that before,but who to blame? .
Written some time ago,when a young man from Wigan was killed.