W
e keep faithwith the fallen
andwith their families,
the broken, the broken-hearted.
We keep faithwith the volunteers and conscripts,
the victors, the vanquished, all victims
who carried secrets and scars to their graves.
We keep faithwith thehamlets and villages, towns and cities
who gave their best,
emptiedof a generationof hope and vigour,
or leveledby conflict that engulfed their homes.
