In the Meadow

English rhyme scheme in tetrameter The sun and morning haze diffused a bright soft blanket o'er the meadow, to float and cloak what was misused, the dead and dying in the shadows. This meadow in God's placid gaze where yesterday there laid two lovers before the devil set ablaze what this mourning blanket covers. We are the children of all time, we are the parents of tomorrow; the bells in distant steeples chime and wring with tears and drip with sorrow. Yet still with hatred in our hearts - within, a future battle starts.