the promise

  Re: Promises Made, Promises to Keep
 Posted on: 16th May 2012 11:53pm



Brown leaves swirl in the breeze
Forgotten headstones lay between the trees
Bygone eras
fertilizing the grass

I've found the stone amidst a jumble of weeds
A promise has kept me to where this road leads
A solid oak towers frowns upon my intrusion
With, heavily, tattooed trunk, speaks of our collusion
 
There's the hart I carved
The very knife waisted in its scabbard
The words lay bare for the world to see

"Matchless"and beneath it"u and me"

My days as soldier has finally ended
Though my inner turmoil is yet to be mended
The letter came three years to the day
A simple piece of paper
All our dreams ,scattered they lay
Revenge promised at the end of my rapier

My chest hang heavy with medal and brass
Too many men I've sent pushing up the grass
My body riddled with scars
None to my empty heart compares

High with child you hugged me close
Whispering in my ear forever yours
Memory has me torn faced
Wet streaks where the tears traced

"Promise me you'll return to me"
"They'll never take Me" I answered in glee

I fed of that silent need
To heed to answer that plead

Yet here u lay forever stilled
With hollow glory I have returned
The poison in my belly well churned
Soon ,soon my love we shall be returned

Sightless my eyes glaze
As my soul leaves this haze
They found my lifeless body where it lay
And could only but  muse at the broad smile on display    
   
 

#good read