Dedicated to Loree Mason O'Neil
Youth Remembered
by denny
While walking in the woods one day
I chanced upon your cottage there
Long since gone to disrepair
Near meadows where we used to play
In the spring time of our youth.
The old barn, once red, stands nearby
Keeping silent sentinel there
Now gray with age and wear
Given way to weeds grown high
That was our play yard then.
Field mice play where once we ran
Long before the cannons’ roar
Signaled yet another war
That cancelled every other plan
And called us off to duty sworn.
Wild raspberries have overgrown
Ruined fences left unrepaired.
By souls departed unprepared
Fields gone to seed, unmown
With none to set this right again
Now at peace ‘neath marker stone
Mute witness to our folly shown
That steals our youth in hatred’s cause
With heavy heart we doth bemoan
Innocence taken by mankind’s flaws.
I chanced upon your cottage there
Long since gone to disrepair
Near meadows where we used to play
In the spring time of our youth.
The old barn, once red, stands nearby
Keeping silent sentinel there
Now gray with age and wear
Given way to weeds grown high
That was our play yard then.
Field mice play where once we ran
Long before the cannons’ roar
Signaled yet another war
That cancelled every other plan
And called us off to duty sworn.
Wild raspberries have overgrown
Ruined fences left unrepaired.
By souls departed unprepared
Fields gone to seed, unmown
With none to set this right again
Now at peace ‘neath marker stone
Mute witness to our folly shown
That steals our youth in hatred’s cause
With heavy heart we doth bemoan
Innocence taken by mankind’s flaws.
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