Five empty chairs
an open book
a white-grey-black image
of a broken church
Who sit on the seats
staring out at you
as you leaf through
the book's heavy pages
Not all are there
in its Times Roman print
other hands have added
the names of so many
Echoes abound
in that soundless room
of war and strife
at sea and on land
One chair is missing
perhaps unwittingly;
the War did not end
when guns fell silent
1919 was another year
in which the Great War
claimed lives
205 - at the Beasts of Holm
