Is this poem O.K.? I don't mind...

...criticism....................................................................? Do you remember
The lives lost
The men forgotten
To war?

Have you seen
The unmarked graves,
The unclaimed bodies
The unknown souls?

Have you heard
The people crying
For brothers, husbands, children
Never to be seen again?

Have you watched
Someone wait
For a loved one lost
To the war?

Have you cried
Over a grave
Of a family member
With no body within?

Did you see
The patient woman
Waiting for her father
Never to return?

Have you felt
The hopelessness
But waited,
Still?

Have you suffered
When news came,
Of bodies found?

Or did you
Forget your kin, lost
Somewhere, out there
in the fields of WWII
Or do you remember?
 
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