LETTER: I Have No Words

I have no words

No words to describe

No words to praise

How you lived and died

All the sacrifices made

How you bled in the dirt

Watched friends fall

How you ignored the hurt

To answer the call

I have no words that can explain

How you chose to give

Every moment, again and again

You gave, so others could live

I have no words

No acts

No speeches

No songs

Only silence to honour the soldiers who are gone.

– Jeff Bont, Maple Ridge