the young dead souldiers

the young dead soldiers do not speak
nevertheless the are heard in the still houses
(who has not heard them?)
.
they have a silence that speaks for them at night
and when the clock counts
.
they say
we were young we have died remember us
.
they say
we have done what we could
but until it finished no one can know what our lives gone
.
they say
our deaths are not ours
they are yours
they will mean what you make them
.
they say
whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and new hope
.
or for nothing
we can not say it is you who must say this
.
they say
we leave you our deaths
give them their meaning
give them an end to the war and a true peace
give them a victory that ends the war and a piece after wards
give them their meaning
we were young, they say,
we have died
remember us