April 27, 2006
We Die Together
on the deaths of Sgt. 1st Class John Thomas Stone (USA) and Pte. Rob Costall (Canada)
we die together, ours and theirs
brothers separated by a mere imaginary line
scribed across this vast continent
whose blood released
to free a foreign land
erases even that distinction
more alike than different
heroes who knew the risk
and took it
that strangers might have a share
in their freedom
“no greater love exists
that one should lay down his life
for an other"
Scripture quotation paraphrased from John 15:13