All the pretty maidens lined up in a row
on the sea shore to watch their young men go
off to war for a king they’ll never see or know
one told her beau
kiss me I love you
another said kiss me quick
for we don’t know if there will ever be an end to all of this violence
and still a third
was at a loss for words
and had no kisses to give
only tears to leave on him.
and though it wasn’t much
the soldier still took them
