I didn’t deserve the love that you gave:

I didn’t deserve your extinguished heart.

I wish I had been the one to behave

That last time before fate tore us apart.

 

As one young child is pulled from the rubble,

I realise that you were crushed beneath.

Another search is not worth the trouble;

I’ll find a still spot to lay down my wreath.

 

I hear the sirens and look to the sky,

As missiles flatten today's dreams and lives.

Faced with this slaughter, I ask myself why

We live in a world where such murder thrives.

 

When you last saw me, I’d travelled all night

And drank too much with my mates on the train.

I was not that nice, if I recall right;

You never wanted to see me again.

 

And now here I am, and you are not here;

It’s hard to explain how that makes me feel.

In all my turmoil of grief and of fear,

I now understand what this war can steal.