Still, <br /> <br /> Silent, <br /> <br /> Slow, <br />Falling down, <br /> <br /> White, <br /> <br /> Cold, <br />The icy embrace of snow, <br /> <br /> Slows loving fold, <br /> <br />Arms stretch, <br /> <br /> Unable to reach, <br /> <br />Tears frozen, <br /> <br /> Cold upon cheeks, <br /> <br />Blood flowing, <br /> slow to bleed, <br /> <br />Ice reaching inside of thee, <br /> <br />Glass reflection, <br /> starry eyes <br /> <br />The caws of ravens, <br /> <br />Flowed by crows, <br /> <br />Blackened figures, <br /> Iced in snow, <br /> <br />In the night land around, <br /> <br />Laying, <br /> dead upon the ground. <br /> <br />Piles of bodies none can see, <br /> <br />Holocaust, <br /> remember me. <br /> <br />A hand lands upon my shoulder, <br /> <br />I shake, <br /> I surrender, <br /> <br />I follow, <br /> my captor, <br /> <br />Hoping praying, <br /> for the hereafter. <br /> <br />In this hour Lord come to me, <br /> <br />Let it happen, <br /> So I may still believe, <br /> <br />For it is hard to believe, <br /> <br />If you didn't care about them, <br /> why care for me? <br /> <br />I lay shot, <br /> wounded. <br /> left in the snow. <br /> <br />A raven lands, <br /> then a crow. <br /> <br />Broken I lay, <br /> I can no longer even cry, <br /> <br />For the birds, <br /> Have taken my eyes.<br /><br />Matthew Moser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/death-on-my-shoulder/
