war

[BabyGrace]

all that's left to hold
when this tide has swept through
is the whitened bones
structured imagination
and sorrowful delusion
the quiet echo of a child's laughter
slowly fades into the growing twilight
rasping breath over piles
mountains of shoes, hair
don't dream
there's nothing out there
nothing crawls back to choke you
haunted the rest of your days
they were people people like you and me
people who cared
or so we thought

 

[popkidu2]

they were people people like you and me
people who cared
or so we thought[/B]

 

[Bacchus]

Originally posted by BabyGrace:

the quiet echo of a child's laughter
slowly fades into the growing twilight

Simply beautiful, as always you manage to reach into the heart and touch-the-sky!
;(

 

[scatteroflight]

It's eerie--of course I read it as being about the Holocaust, but there's a suggestion of something else we don't know about, something really tragic--maybe the way people felt before, during and after WWII as they gradually found out what had been happening in one of the most "civilized" parts of the world...

Thanks.