Leaving an Island

A Poem by Ken e Bujold

The old forgotten General

surveys the crippled front:

a ragged row of chateaus

lining the shuttered coast,

this new nation's monument

to the amnesiac age.

When he bends to the sea,

shores of departed friends,

the skimpy-eyed children

barely mask their contempt for

the dottering anachronism soiled

long before their channel changing crossing.

Why he wonders did he ever

wander off the island.

Ken e Bujold

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Added on October 31, 2022
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