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Gettysburg Hauntings
When General Meade met General Lee
At Gettysburg in 1863
Sons of the South battled Northern brothers
And neither side has ever recovered
Fifty-one thousand lives lost in three days
Of a summertime swelter, July haze
Souls rose not to heaven from bodies piled
On blood-soaked battlefields spanning 40 miles
An on-scene photographer moved fallen men
To snap better images with his lens
Hats off to Alex Gardner if you please
Today picture-takers’ cameras freeze
At a large bouldered site called Devil’s Den
Sharpshooter hid, killed unsuspecting men
Travelers at night on Pennsylvania roads
Claim they see soldiers, hear cannons explode
A century after the Revolution
United our states to wage war as one
Virginians were forced to choose blue or gray
Mason Dixon Line divided that way
If only Tom Jefferson’s wise notion
Had not been struck from the Declaration
Slavery, the impetus for war and hate
Would have been quashed before State versus State
Gettysburg might have been a peaceful farm
Where soldiers had never succumbed to harm
But restless spirits, faces pale and gaunt
Never retreat from their Gettysburg haunt
Our nation’s darkest hour plays out each night
And passersby still marvel at the sight
Where sons of the South battled Northern brothers
For neither side will ever recover
A war inside must be fought
to find the purpose of dreams
sought.
Trying to put the lies behind and
the truth be caught.
Grasping for something, anything
that will make sense.
Inside her mind searches for everything
but never finds anything.
Exhausted from running the race meant
to be won but always lost.
Running to strangers but they do nothing
but shun.
Finally, the search is done after uncovering
everything under the sun,
She realizes and all becomes clear now that
she needed not search for dreams sought,
for she never had one after all.
A war inside must be fought to find the
purpose of dreams sought.
the great ah ha
what could be done better
a realisation of minds gone awry
why did i spend all that energy and time
and call killing time entertainment
It is coming your way
a realisation
the wars we fought
are not earthly
man's will to do good will eventually explain
preperation rapture
old thinking seen a new way
no shelter on this day
rebirth of souls
asking why we bothered to win a war to suffer
war was not born of earth
talking ourselves from going crazy
what did we learn from our own test
we can barely pass
hands of forefathers shape our heads
Gabrielles dance remembered
the proof of the underworld refusing to return home
preperation rapture
the calm of the storm
the angels giving chase
demon of war and so called chaos
betrayed
Take time to prepare yourselves for higher understanding
dispute my own freedom
getting carried away with my imagination
praying for clarity of the delusion