I felt a little dizzy at the grave. <br />And there he was, so frozen to the bones. <br />The snow was barely sweetening the place. <br />So silly to now have a conversation, <br /> when over decades we had never managed it. <br />But what am I to do with one way barbs <br />the ones you cleverly implanted while I slept? <br />I'm sorry if you're freezing in that hole, <br />I'm not without compassion, as you know. <br />Though did not learn this trait from you or mother <br />but from the books I read, the ones you told me 'no'. <br />Ran out of words already, isn't that a joke! <br />Perhaps this comes from you forbidding me to speak. <br />During your lifetime when you thought you were <br />commanding general to the troops around you. <br />Don't kid yourself, you never really were. <br />I gotta go now, although I do wonder, <br />would you concern yourself about some frozen bones? <br />If it were me down in that lonely hole <br />and you were standing in my place saluting whom?<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/frozen-general/
