the taste of forever

The taste of forever Wild oats and thistles covered the track stinging my legs for punishments for since forgotten The misty Dale that makes war look like a romantic adventure that separated men from boys until a wolf howled Trespasses, are buried under flowers keep a soldier's last secret, his name blew away in the wind The cottage was still there, trees around had grown, could no longer be seen from the main road. the door was rotten but still locked the window curtain was made of spiders web the room was shady in the noon heat intense silence came thundering demanding to be heard so many graves not visited and tears of the betrayed ran into a lake where trout waked He hits his knuckles on a stone wall and savored the pain, blood dripped onto the floor and ants came He threw a rope over a beam and climbed on a table, his dog outside barked it sensed utter peril At ease, by now, he walked back to the main road, and behind him in a cabin, a noose gently swayed