LIFE Poem: 20th Century Sovngarde, by Allen James Folz

You Hold air puffed cheeks until jaw ligaments strain
Your Body bloats on fields poisoned by innocents slain

Soldier through the soil torn
Crash upon the rocks reborn
Shore, beach, shadowded glen
Weary miles for travelling men
See through the sky above
Into a world they once did love
Stars strain the innocents slain
Fallen as rusted morning rain
Blood and tin and tractor screws
Heaven’s tireless war meant for men to loose

Sea’s static rage unending sending them on their way
Waves crash they all descend upon afterlifes quay

Travel through the soil torn
Crash upon the rocks reborn
Shore, beach, shadowy glen
Weary miles miled by travel weary men
See through the sky above
Through a world they once did love
Fields that once did bear your daily bread
Soon will collapse under the weight of the dead
Forlorn do they walk as they did love
Love like the living dead
Soon to pile upon the fields above

Sea’s static rage unending sending them on their way