On Anzac Day

At the town's war memorial in the dawning gray
After the war memorial ceremony a lone bugler The Last Post play
For soldiers who died a century ago in a war far away
Memories of the war supposed to end all wars remembered on Anzac Day

But what have we learned from wars of the past little it does seem true to say
When children on their computers are playing war games today
I too played war games with toy guns with my school friends as a boy
And talking of and celebrating war heroes many adults seem to enjoy

Of the praises of war heroes the patriots may sing
But no such a thing as a just war as war is an awful thing
Every day in war zones the numbers of civilians only seem to grow and grow
Some of them live with horrific injuries and others die painful and slow

The war supposed to end all wars was fought one hundred years ago
And the sworn enemy back then nowadays is not the foe
And at the war memorial on Anzac dawn the onlookers in silence stand
In respect as a lone bugler plays The Last Post for men who died in a far off Land.