Courting a fluid motion
As sea salt breaks over the sand
They are standing at the bank

Of a swift & quick disband
Soldiers traipsing with conviction
Never slowing,

A repetitive spray of gunpowder

Stewing lead
Angry for ever leaving
A steel incased warm bed

So as the grass seeps blood anew,
We grow cold with weary time as
His callused fingers and sure feet fall


With the hope he gave us blundered


A steady soldier against a sleep deprived shell
Caressing each other like a surgeon’s romance
In an infinite split second

Till the moon wanes
Till trees will cry for home

Then the sun will burst
Exploding across jealous starry fields of day

The soldier will drop like an actress
Into the arms of a film screen hero

Falling

Into a the loving arms of a bed
Six feet underground

All of us trying
All of us hoping

Only finding lucidity in nightmares