Life is a captive to duty
Bondage to one or more souls
Dear and near love or hate;
Family nation or race…
Born are some to turn captives
To nation’s duty and die;
Sacred and sorrowful are
Soldier’s war widow’s lives…
09 08 08
Kesav Venkat Easwaran
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/soldier-s-life/