Rae Desmond Jones' '11 November, 1918'

11 November 1918

It was the end of the war to end wars but didn’t;

It was the peace that made another war inevitable;

It may be the war that has not ended yet;

It remains a day that reminds us of our vulnerability;

That such a war ended - temporarily - on such a date

             Continues to inspire the superstitious;

It remains the day on which a trumpet sounds,

            There is silence & we hear it -

             On most other days we do not.