A thousand years have passed <br />And I remember it as new <br />But now I sit <br />By the ruins of that crumbled old abbey <br />With the pilgrims afew <br />Where are the monks? <br />Dead and gone are they? <br />Old Henry saw them off <br />Before I had my say <br /> <br />Two thousand years have passed <br />Since I sat by the flickering flames of torchlight <br />On a heather scattered hillside <br />And watched the Druids tortured <br />Then slaughtered <br />By the sons of Rome <br />I rejoiced <br />On that day they went home <br /> <br />Three thousand years have passed <br />Since I stood proudly upon a hillfort <br />Amongst the battle torn Celts <br />Wearing nothing but animal pelts <br />Stripped from the bodies of beasts <br />Who I thought <br />Were our Gods <br />As well as our feasts <br /> <br />Ten thousand years have passed <br />Since I knelt in that stone circle <br />Darkest of times <br />Sacrificial blood <br />Flowing from my veins <br />My screams <br />Echoing off their sacred moon <br />I was taken too soon <br /> <br />Eternity has passed <br />Since I held up my ale and sang <br />The songs of the dead and the cursed <br />In the burning fortresses of Valhalla <br />Feasting on the souls of the first <br />That were taken from Lindisfarne <br />From innocent folk <br />Who meant me no harm <br /> <br />A long time has passed <br />Excalibur has gone <br />Ripped away from my flesh and bone <br />Perhaps in the end <br />My time will be written <br />Many years just sitting <br />Within the pages <br />Of a forgotten dusty old tome<br /><br />Maurice Rowlands<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-thousand-years-7/
