The lines one after the other <br />One below the other <br />The computer keyboard clicked <br />Outside <br />The cold the frost-laden cold <br />How cold these last three months <br />This new year, <br />This end of the old year <br />And still <br />Still <br />The lines one after the other <br />One below the other <br />Like column after column of red soldiers <br />Fall <br />Linear and horizontal <br />One column after one column <br />Till <br />Time shouts ‘Stop! ’ and then <br />Strew with red <br />Littered <br />The white snow<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lines-one-after-the-other/
