Looking Back

• Artist: tiger_grl_1413
• Description: this poem is about a general who was once in a great war. it switches from the present to the past, on the battlefield, to where he is now. in the past, the general was a prideful and arrogant man. now though, years after the war is over, he regrets all that he did to support it. he was greatly damages mentally and emotionally when he saw the carnage of the greatest war in history. one that he had helped to support and bring about.
• Date: 11/22/2008
• Tags: looking back sadness wars battles

Call on the face of the fading shore
See the person who once you were
Look into the past
See the forces that were amassed

Here and now, on restless seas
Turn your face into the breeze
Do Heaven's angels sweetly sing?
Can you hear the sweet bells ring?

Face yourself and say the word
Tell the men to draw their swords
Step back, let the battle begin
Cleave and slice, again and again

Do you reget that long ago war?
What was it truly for?
Now you hold your sadness inside
Then, you held on to your foolish pride

Forward, forward, the horde goes
Gory visions fill your eyes, horrid scents assault your nose
It was not meant to come to this
After all, how could you miss?

And so the grand general meets his end
His heart sinks, his soul will rend
He knows now how he has fallen
Through the mourning of his fallen men

Now the angels sweetly sing
And he can hear the sweet bells ring
But his soul is still long on the mend
To his fallen men for his thoughts and prayers to send

Comments

[ShinigamiPrinceShinKu]

really good poem I like it