thoughts on the day

 

Thoughts on the day:

Sitting in the cemetery on pine ridge road, 11:00 am, May 25^th

 

 

The hills are green and rolling

A light wind blows the trees

And all around me on the ground

The sweet wind blows the leaves.

 

Although the young man lying here

No wife, that much I see

No children had been born to him

For he was only 23.

 

Above his name in polished stone

Between the words “world war”

There is something engraved there

With wings that says "air corps"

 

A long forgotten symbol

A long forgotten life

A long forgotten enemy

A long forgotten strife.

 

Could his youth have known?

That once the years had passed

That no one would remember him

Scarce his comrades that go passed.

 

His comrades are all old now

Their bones are stiff with age

But they still stand and raise their hands

Last light upon the stage.

 

But their bones can’t make then stay

They sigh and kick the ground

And think they’ll be buried there

A thought that will resound.

 

They go and leave me sitting there

Beside the youth, beside the tree

I think “what horror of past war,

And what it would have done to me”

Reviews

[Kelz]

sadly so many graves the same. Wish we could change the past and give them the life they deserve and should have experienced :(

[Jinx's Heart]

Very touching tale of a lost soldier. I definitely touches the heart. Excellent writing.