No greater love was that

A Memorial Day poem

To read the words is to live today

To breathe now unencumbered

To move about in a vital way

To rest deep in a slumber

To see the light crack through the tree

To witness sky blue in the dawn

To watch the sun fall in the sea

To observe the stars turn on

To play our games with old and young

To work and build and earn

To exercise our legs and lungs

To teach and train and learn

To kneel and offer thanks

To sit and ponder long

To stand upon the banks

To praise the skies in song

Free we are to live and love in this very hour

The valiant left their liberty for sponges dry and sour

Life’s riches we partake in joy for which we paid no price

No greater love, our nation’s friends, laid down in sacrifice.