Kit Kelen #1046 - day the war ends . 11.11.18

1046

day the war ends

11.11.18

poem scribbled on the day

up jumped

and answer

hats in the air

all a hundred years old

gird em stiff upper

loin stirring

our stocks have risen so much

trench dark

how bright the factory

someone is whistling along

or – watch out – it's a bomb

peace like a memory

war is a dream

sweetest gal

and safe here

mud and immaculate clean

we are still from a great height falling

members of a choir

all dance towards a Christmas death

won't make God exist

here's rusty baccy tin

here's oats from home

communion wafer

pass billy boys

and while you've a lucifer

breast pocket Bible

stopped the bullet

just one

at Deuteronomy

key change

maybe that's fever pitch

who was it needs me again?

am I a duty to serve?

love my loss

like the gun I tend

like the bullets that blossom

a delicate ballet

what are your legs?

whistle for truth

and it comes

whose death is this?

and who's to witness?

revenge and spite

nothing saved this wretch

tried and tried

but God wouldn't be

pipes shot to shreds

here's world

whereon the numbers

cannot try the cause

the bugle at your balls, boys

the triangle, the bell

the war is still with us

all these long years

spit on a Turk

make carcass of Kaiser

we take our war out for a walk

fresh fields

music of fled souls

whom truth betrayed

nations that weeps together

leaps together

over high seas

to other lands

unheard of yet

they are nothing now

were high on the adventure

the lamb lies down

with the facing blade

Australia will be there

lest we regret

here's oompapa empire

so solemnly sincere

never say die

to conquer

that's my sun never setting now

silence for a moment

fife for a lowering down

shimmy up lads for a flag

fool ourselves

and soil the pants

and once again

weren't we here before?

all leaves of the story fall

to glory us

with halleluyah

then worship us awhile

to pack up your troubles

a long way to go

capture the falling

close cinema eyes

something symphonic

the whole effect

blessed are …

can't remember here

let's come into a forest clearing

you want it to end?

just sign on the line

isn't this grace amazing?