This was the winning Poem of the Four Score
Studios Poetry contest: thank you guys for sending in your poems! Congradulations to Ms. Ashley Malin whos poem got the most votes.
Stars Above the Trenches
By: Ashley Malin
Darkness clouds my
thoughts
Smoke I breathe into my
lungs
Rats scurry about my feet
There is a foreboding
silence
Until I hear a weary
whisper
“Do you wonder how it all
will end?
Is there a God that would
allow this to happen?”
I shake my head.
“I don’t know. All I know
is nothing will ever be the same.
Sometimes I too wonder
what I’m fighting for.
Then I think of my family.
They’re all I have-all I
am. I would die for them.”
The stranger in the
shadows sighs.
“I dreamed that while I
lay here, my soul flew to the stars.
I never felt such hope
before then.”
The troops gather readying
to cross into no man’s land
I touch the shoulder of my
fellow soldier,
seeing the light in his
eyes.
“Run out with me as if
your heartbeat
were the flapping of your
wings.
We shall see each other’s
courage in the night.”
He nods. “Until we meet
again, my brother.”
Sunrise greets our
footsteps
I am no longer earthbound
All I see is my children
As if in a vision, running
to embrace me
Their love rushes invigorating
my spirit
Until my body falls into
sleep and my spirit awakens
The last vision is of my
fellow soldier lying beside me
Until the dawn breaks and
we go on.
