The forgotten

In the great war, they told us to walk or die

I chose to walk.

We walked so far that out souls were as worn as our soles

That the ground stopped feeling like ground

That the sky could have swallowed me at any second and I could finally cease to be.

We became children of the earth.

And the earth taught us

That the lives of the living aren’t worth a much as we thought.

When freedom came

I walked out of chains and into life

And I forgot.

Forgot the lessons of the trees

That lay silent in the dust.

For the truth in the food that my mouth craved

For the scars that man carved into the surface of the earth

Many years ago.