You Have To Stand Up Now

by Jemma   Feb 5, 2007


Out on the fields
With the fallen names
Running though the murky haze
On and on and on

Ducking the shrapnel, just like always
Forever dodging missiles
You're a missing target
Who cares? Fire anyway!

Down in the gutter
Where your heads at
Wake up!
Open you eyes
There's nothing that can be saved in dreams

A dark, gloomy passage
It's a right of yours to turn away
But don't look back now
It's going nowhere

You have to stop lying in the mud
Beneath the sky, the sun, the moon
They illuminate the pale figures
But you have to stand up now

Don' forget the fallen names
Never then are they lost
Memories are all we have
In these shattered times

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  • 17 years ago

    by Sungrl And Mrs Whatsit

    Well-done........and .....well....How far back we remember could just matter......We all do, indeed, have to stand up.....There is much more to see.....and Work to be done!......Good, soulful writing......could be sung, even......