A Candid Opinion

Do we want to go back to the trenches?

To get bully and biscuits to eat.

To get caught by a snipers chance bullet

Or crippled with frost bitten feet.

There are some say they're anxious to get back.

There are others who say they are not.

It is not that they care for the danger

Or are frightened that they will get shot.

Its the awful conditions you live in,

Midst the rain and the mud and the dirt.

Where you'd give a month's pay for a square meal.

And twice that amount for a shirt.

No, I'm not at all anxious to go back.

But I'll have to go that's understood.

So I'm willing and ready to go there.

And if needs be to stop there for good.

Willie F. Ritchie

91st Highlanders 23.4.15