Well Done
A Memorial Day Tribute 2017
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Well done
Be thou at PEACE
So be our prayers of love and praise this Memorial Day
For Our Veterans who have served in their own selfless way
Heartfelt be these words and remembrances
Heartfelt be the sacrifices, the visions
Heartfelt be the freedoms and rights that prevail
’Tis the vision of freedoms and valor within souls that be
And known be our sons and daughters who have served from sea to sea
The cry of Freedom ever a blessed creed
Held by sacrifice and noble deed
Each life that was, NOW lives in God’s embrace sublime
Ever blessed be their souls in soaring grace divine
To Freedoms’ Call hearts in praise be heard
And so the spoils of victory and liberation’s word
No words can explain the wages of war we do spend
But for the freedoms and rights we are to defend
Tears of lament and loss we do shed and share
Let us in heart know, in valor, souls soar high in God’s care
This gift of Life with vision blessed and bold
This the giving within each Veteran’s story told
Light beholden within our heart
From which love and freedom have their primordial start
Endured they battlefields of victory of plight
Through all held they freedom’s light
In homage to sons and daughters, husbands and wives
Hearts of purpose who have given their lives
Our dear ones who once filled our day
Their souls taken to another path, to the eternal way
Be there Peace, Brotherhood, Freedom, called in God’s name
And to each Veteran our blessings and acclaim
This day in word, in song, in tribute, honor be heard
The glory, the glory, the blessings, of Freedom’s Word.
Rose Marie Raccioppi
Poet Laureate
Orangetown, New York
