The Unnamed
Popular Poems Topics for You.
History writes the famous names in large—
the leaders and the celebrated few—
but underneath them in the unmarked graves
are the ones whose names the history never knew.
They fought without a monument or mention,
they sacrificed without a promised fame—
they only had the cause and the conviction
and the willingness to go without a name.
I honor the unnamed today especially—
the ones who gave what famous men gave too,
and whose giving was no less the full giving
for the fact that no one wrote their name in view.
feelthewords.com
History writes the famous names in large—
the leaders and the celebrated few—
but underneath them in the unmarked graves
are the ones whose names the history never knew.
They fought without a monument or mention,
they sacrificed without a promised fame—
they only had the cause and the conviction
and the willingness to go without a name.
I honor the unnamed today especially—
the ones who gave what famous men gave too,
and whose giving was no less the full giving
for the fact that no one wrote their name in view.
