Bleeding Trees
The snow falls red
Amidst Novembers smoking breeze
Memories pass as bleeding trees
Soldiers, heroes, all who fell
Amidst the broiling troubled shells
Their broken limbs
And punctured skins
Scream fear into the winter meadows
Eternally marching through the shadows
Men who once stood now on their knees
Bleeding midst Novembers trees....
Red snow falls down....down, down
Down through the trees...trees, trees
Trees bleed through leaves... leaves, leaves
Leaves bleed, leaves bleed... bleed, bleed
The snow falls hard
Blood rains through leaves that bleed and fall
Forever staining one and all
Soldiers, heroes, all who cried
As at men's own hands they died
Their twisted forms
All lay forlorn
As lovers weep and mothers scream
To see them now they can but dream
Men who once stood proud and tall
Bleeding through Novembers fall......
The soldier's blood runs through the trees
The men that fell down to their knees
Then laid their heads upon the ground
The snow falls hard but makes no sound
Red snow falls down....down, down
Down through the trees...trees, trees
Trees bleed through leaves... leaves, leaves
Leaves bleed, leaves bleed... bleed, bleed
Copyright © Jane Shields | Year Posted 2017
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