remember me, sweetheart

I scribble out a letter
to my loved
one

as I huddle in the mud
of a long
trench with other soldiers,

shivering in the rain.
tomorrow we go out,
go across
the empty field

where so many dead lie
and
begin

the push forward to
the end.

I write to her as best
I can
in the darkness, my

hand cramped from

the cold. my boots wet,
my helmet
on.

my rifle and bayonet beside
me.

I love you my dear, I write.
my heart is yours,
if I am to do die tomorrow

remember me, sweet heart.
remember always
the love we shared.

don't forget me.
you were my light.