Why Poppies

Why Are They Selling poppies, mother, selling poppies in town today?
The poppies, are flowers of love for the men who marched away.
But why have they chosen a poppy, mother.
Why not a beautiful rose?
Because, my child, men fought and died in the  fields
Where poppies grow.
But why are the poppies so red, mother. Why are poppies so red?
Red is the color of blood my child.
The blood that our soldiers shed.
The heart of the poppy is black mother.
Why does it have to be black?
Black, my child, is a symbol of grief for the men
who never came back.
But, why mother dear are you crying so?
Your tears are like winter rain.
My tears are fears for you, my child.
For the world is forgetting again.

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