On the photo in the newspaper -

The soldiers, standing arm in arm,

The heroes of the World War II,

With smiles on faces and charm.

 

The photo was taken before a battle,

Before the guns began to rattle.

The sky was blue,

The grass was green,

The friends were true

The truest you have ever seen.

 

No one knows their names,

No one knows who they are,

May be someone was James,

But everyone was peculiar.

 

They lay in a battlefield

Just beginning to live

For the sky to be blue,

For the grass to be green,

For the friends to be true,

The truest you have ever seen.

 

©Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)

29^th of May, 2012