Remembrance Day - Will We Remember?

Photograph: Massimo Crisafi/GuardianWitness

This is the iconic art installation

 where each ceramic poppy planted at the Tower of London 

honours a life lost by service men and women
 of Britain and the Commonwealth during WW1.

Huge as it is,

 it is a drop in the ocean of all lives lost fighting in conflicts since;

and this only under one flag.

Remember the dead of every nation,

then and now,

and those who had not signed up for war,

too vast to count.

As we left the chutch this morning
 the opening words of the dismissal from the Eucharist

held deeper meaning, hope, and direction, for each of us today
as they tell us,

.

Go in Peace...