Remembrance

Time stood still,At eleven-oh-two,What was a typical day,Turned a bleak, grey hue.What once was,Could not be felt nor seen,Invisible -Engraving pain in everything.These columns of twelve,As if guarding,Could never bear the weight,Of what they are holding.For there in the centre,In a tiered column so hollow,Lies the souls of seventy thousand -Only mirroring sorrow.This reminds me,HowContinue reading “Remembrance”

Like An Ocean

Like an ocean, uncertain,Weather affecting current,Courses chartered led astern,How lives could be lost – In a fleeting moment. Black of night and hope for shore,Guided by a distant light -Perhaps nothing more;Though fear reaps through everyone’s core,With the ocean song, spirits soar.Come the dawn, the ocean mends,A victorious journey in the end;The folly of forecastContinue reading “Like An Ocean”