ROSALIND FRIDAY

Where Heroes lie

Acrylic on canvas

76 x 51cm

The roll is called, but it is heartbreaking as name after name is called.

There is a deep silence.

Despite the noise of the incessant cracking of rifles and screaming of

Shrapnel, there are few of us left to answer our names, just a thin line

Of weary, ashen faced men, behind a mass of silent forms, once our comrades.

There they have been for days.

We have not had time to bury them.