“Silver Mist”
As a ghostly mist begins to fill the
silvery landscape,
an unendurable cry,
wild with anguish and filled with terror,
fills the air.
I see black figures, wounded horses,
moving around in the distance
falling down and then getting up once
more.
I sit and hold my ears
but the piercing screams impale themselves
into my head.
Then a different noise interrupts the
horses’ groaning.
BANG!!!
I see the beasts struggle,
their mouths filled with agony.
BANG!!!
The wailing intensifies
but I cannot flee.
BANG!!!
I
take my hands off my ears.
Dead
air is all around.
A
long-drawn dying sigh
hangs in the wind.
The
singing of shells
and
the rumble of guns
begin
to fill my ears
as silver mist saturates the land.
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