REMEMBRANCE - To a Soldier

I will never know 
  your voice,
 I will never know
your smile

 ....but I know that
You gave

 I will never know
  your loves
 I will never know
your hates.

...but I know that 
 You gave

 .....you gave your life
 in the war to end all wars
 (so-called),
 on the Somme.
 KIA
(so they say)

 I will never know
  how you died
 I will never know
your wounds.

But I know 
 you left behind
 a poor widow
 and three children, fatherless.

 I will never know
  your dying thoughts
 I will never know
  where your body is laid

 But I know 
 the widow remarried
 and bore my father.
 She is our Matriarch,
 the Pivot of our family tree
 round which we all gather.

 You will never know
  Me
 And I would not

Be
but for you....
 Your Death gave me Life

 I Remember that
 I Remember you
I Thank You

©  Sonya Katasheva  2012

Author's Note - In memory of Henry Joseph Jarvis who was killed in action of July 1st 1916 on the Somme ........ and his widow, my grandmother Rosina who was left with 4 children under 6 one of whom also died the same year.  She eventually remarried my grandfather.  I would never have been born but for the death of Henry Jarvis.