Loss and Remembrance

This is not the end of a battle chant 
When will their glory fade? 
No polished medals to be worn 
No patriotic parade.
A peacetime loss seems greater somehow
Sweeping through the land 
And without choice a numbers game  
That’s hard to understand.
Today we remember them 
How hard the year has been 
We look back and think of thousands 
And ones we bring to mind
And struggle how magnified is the loss of humankind.
And we hope because the light is there
And pray for better times.