They Came

all was s i l e n c e when they came for you

standing unbent and tall amidst the straggles

scattered like bits of word to season the world,

I know they saw you as a giant humanly defiant

of all the odds and blocks Life always let down to fall

just hosts of ghosts to haunt a passing now,

slender as a willow by a river you stood so tall

your shadow grew providing shade where little was to be found

I will always recall the promise I made myself keep

and the prayer I say for you each night just before sleep

waves me away somewhere, the sound of wind and wings

remembering the things we said and thought were here to last

we learned the river is always moving past to shore

of everything that came to be yet is no more,

I drew your image deep into my view

a l l was silence, when they came for you...



Poetry by Charles Lezine
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Written on 2012-04-15 at 23:42

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