In Gallipoli Today

Where the enemy no longer is the foe
In a place where the gunfire was loud a century ago
Silence reign supreme in Gallipoli today
Where the long dead of war at peace forever lay

Where their brief lives journey came to a violent end
For war is brutal why otherwise pretend
Even for the so called winners the cost of war is great
Since only death and suffering and grief it does create

And what did they die for ask one other than me
For any point in war i for one fail to see
And though their praises for their bravery by the patriots sung
It is a fallacy that only the good die young

In April every year people from far away
Come to honor their fallen Countrymen where they lay
But too few of them ask for what did they die
The brave misled who believed in a lie

That they died in the war that was supposed to end all wars did not turn out to be true
Far better lives and deaths ought to have been their due
In conflict zones only suffering, death and tears and pain
And any reason for war beyond me to explain

The present foe can be your future friend it does seem
And in Gallipoli today peace reign supreme
Their long journey from their Homeland to the shores of Turkey was their last
Though the lessons not learned from wars of the past.